modifications to server.xml are overwrite after every update

Question

Hello,

after every update from jira, jira service desk or confluence the individual changes of the server.xml files are overwrite with the default server.xml file on my linux system. (/opt/atlassian/jira/conf/server.xml)

So i have to made this individual changes after every upgrade manually to the server.xml file again.

Is there any possible solution to save them for ever?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

I tend to keep them under source control, and run a diff when I do the first test run of the upgrade - a diff tool tells me when changes need reapplying and where, and some can do some of them automatically (usually the less complex changes)

HollaDieWaldfee · Answer

thx for this helpfull answers.

At the moment i have an PDF Document for each server.xml (Jira, Jira Service Desk, Confluence...) with my configuration and after the update i go to the server.xml and change only the specific lines as it is in my PDF Document manually.

It's just 5 minutes work each installation, but i hoped that i can automated this. But i understand that this is the safest way i can do it.

Italo Qualisoni [e-Core] · Answer

I totally agree with Nic and Craig.

It's expected that these file might changes during an upgrade.

One change introduced in JIRA 8 that I've caused a lot of issue is  Jira server startup fails with Tomcat misconfigured error that has included two attributes  (relaxedQueryChars and relaxedPathChars ) to the connectors in server.xml and due some file customization these two attributes were removed and prevented the application to start.