Setting up the context path for JIRA

If you have multiple web applications running on the same domain, you might want to set up a context path for JIRA—for example, http://example.com/jira, where /jira is the context path.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to set up a context path for JIRA:

  1. Shut down JIRA if it is running.
  2. Open up JIRA_INSTALL/conf/server.xml in a text editor.
  3. Locate the following line and enter the context path for the path attribute—for example, path="/jira":
            <Contextpath="/jira"docBase="${catalina.home}
        /atlassian- jira" reloadable="false"
        useHttpOnly="true">
  4. Save the file and restart JIRA. If you are doing this after JIRA is installed, you will have to update JIRA's Base URL option so that its links will reflect the change. ...

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