Stash 1.2 : System settings

This page lists the Java VM system properties which may be set to control certain aspects of Stash's behaviour.

Property NameValuesDefaultPurpose
file.encodingutf-8utf-8The Stash WAR needs to be run with the file.encoding property set to utf-8 in the JVM.

To set JVM system properties:

There are 2 approaches to setting JVM system properties:

  • The recommended approach is to add the property to <Stash installation directory>/system.properties. This file can be created as a plain text file (it follows the Java .properties format).
  • You can also pass the -D parameter to the JVM.