February 2019
Beginner
420 pages
10h 39m
English
As part of the installation process, the installation wizard prompted us to decide which port JIRA should listen to for incoming connections. If you have accepted the default value, it is port 8080. You can change the port setting by locating and opening the server.xml file in a text editor in the JIRA_INSTALL/conf directory. Let's examine the relevant contents of this file:
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
This line specifies the port for the command to shutdown Jira/Tomcat. By default, it is port 8005. If you already have an application that is running on that port (usually another Tomcat instance), you need to change this to a different port:
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"> ...
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