Is there a file I can modify to visually change a specific installation

ariestattoo

I am working through the process of upgrading our Jira instances, We have a staging server, production server and I am working with containers to test configurations and document a migration and upgrade deployment.

Is there a file I can change in the installation that would allow me to label the different instances. Our staging and containers use the same beta database that is refreshed from production weekly so any changes are wiped out and would carry between all containers.

Ideally a heading that identified the server and distro.

 

Thanks Steve

Andy Heinzer

Hi,

I understand you are looking to customize the look between a product Jira site and that of a development or staging instance.   For most setups, I would first want to make sure that the admin is aware of the Look and Feel page directly.  That link cites the documentation on how you can customize the logo, site title, favicon, etc.  Personally, I feel like using this page in the Jira admin panel is the best way to customize this.   There is a fun feature where you upload your own custom logo and Jira will automatically change its color schemes to more closely match the colors in your logo.

For example I made two logos of different colors:

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Uploading one of these via that panel is a good way to distinguish between the two sites in most cases.

 

But I understand that you might not be looking for this specific solution.  Given what you have stated about cloning the production database to use in the staging/dev instance, I believe it could clone this setting.

While investigating this I came across a method that I think could help your use case here.

1. Make sure that you don't already have a custom logo uploaded to Jira, if you do, you can go to the Look and Feel page and just revert to default.
2. Then you can go into the $JIRAINSTALL/atlassian-jira/images/
3. Rename the file in that directory called 'jira-generic.png' to something else, such as 'jira-generic-backup.png'
4. Copy in your own png logo file here (you might want to scale it down a bit if really large)
5. rename your copied file to use the filename jira-generic.png

 

This way the logo change is not being stored to the database, but rather to the installation directory itself.  Perhaps this method can help in some ways to show you which server you are on.  The drawback of this approach is that I don't think this is a supported way to change that icon for one, and two, it doesn't benefit from using the logo upload which can automatically change other colors to match your logo.

I hope this helps.

Andy