How so serve static files in Jira?

Sorin Sbarnea (

I am looking for a way to serve static files from Jira instance, files that would be stored somewhere inside Jira installation directory.

I was a solution that would not require another web server (like nginx or apache), as they are running on a different machine.

Also, I don't want to include these files inside some custom plugins, as it would be to hard to update them.

Radu Dumitriu

JIRA runs in tomcat. Tomcat is able to serve htm files.

So I would not pollute with html jira application directory but modify it's configuration to also load another empty webapp. On this, configured as a directory near atlassian-jira, I would put all my static files.

Something like (server.xml)

<Context path="" docBase="${catalina.home}/staticwebapp" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

.....

</Context>

(staticwebapp is a dir near atlassian-jira containing a simple WEB-INF/web.xml)

WARN: not tested, check the tomcat documentation for details.