Context Path Issues

Question

I have been having issues getting context pathing working in both JRA and Confluence and would appreciate any assistance as to things I might be doing wrong... I am running the latest versions of both pieces of software in a standalone environment. Based on documentation that I have seen on the Atlassian website, I have tried the following steps in both instances to try and get the context pathing to work: 1. Shutdown instances. 2. Edit the server.xml file inside of the /conf directory: Add /jira or /confluence inside of the quotes for path="" variable under the section. 3. Edit "Base URL" in each instance to http:///jira or http:///confluence instead of the ports :8080 or :8090. 4. Restart instances. I have tried one or both of these and all combinations of them and I either get a blank screen or an error saying the location doesn't exist. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Changing the context doesn't change the necessity to listen on a port.  What you've done is change the applications from listening on http://server:port/to http://server:port/application

If you want to run them in Tomcats, you'll also need to change the port to 80.  This doesn't actually stop it being server:port, it's just that port 80 is the standard for http, so systems assume http://server:<noport given> means http://server:80

The other trick is to stick Apache (or another web server) in front of it and use proxies (incoming http://serveris passed through to http://server:port)