# Stash Latest (2.9) : Moving Stash to a different context path

Added by pwatson , edited by pwatson on Oct 30, 2013

There are various reasons why you may wish to change the context path for Stash. Two of those are:

- You are running Stash behind a proxy.
- You have another Atlassian application, or Java web application, available at the same hostname and context path as Stash, and are experiencing login problems (see Login and session conflicts with multiple Atlassian applications).

Related pages:

- Integrating Stash with Apache HTTP Server
- Login and session conflicts with multiple Atlassian applications

Upgrade Note

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Since the manual steps of this process modify the Stash distribution, you will need to repeat Steps 1-6 each time you upgrade Stash. See the Stash upgrade guide.

Changing the context path for Stash:

1. Navigate to the directory where you are running Stash from. This is the install directory that you extracted the Stash distribution to, not your Stash home directory.
2. Stop Stash. This can be done using `bin/stop-stash.bat` on Windows or `bin/stop-stash.sh` on OSX or Linux.

3. Edit `conf/server.xml` and find the element below:

       <Context path="" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-stash" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true"/>

   Update the `path` attribute to reflect the context path that you want Stash to be accessible at, e.g. "/stash":

       <Context path="/stash" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-stash" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true"/>

   Then save the file.

4. Start Stash. This can be done using `bin/start-stash.bat` on Windows or `bin/start-stash.sh` on OSX or Linux.
   Stash should now be available at the same host as before under the new context path. For example a server that was at http://localhost:7990 will now be reachable at http://localhost:7990/stash.

5. Once Stash has started, go to the administration area and click Server Settings (under 'Settings'). Append the new context path to your base URL:

       https://my-stash-hostname:7990/stash

6. Click Save.

Stash + Apache

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Note that if you are running Stash behind Apache:

- You will need to make sure that the host or context path that Stash is exposed on is not also being used by another web application that is listening on a different port.
- If you have updated the Stash context path using the steps outlined above, you will need to update your Apache configuration, as described in Integrating Stash with Apache HTTP Server.

Application Links

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If you had Application Links set up before changing the context path in Stash, you will have to recreate those using the new Stash URL. See Linking Stash with JIRA.

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