Going from installed JIRA to custom-built from source JIRA

[Christian Selbrede]

We first began our JIRA evalution by using the Windows Installer to setup and install on our server. We have since bought JIRA and have successfully built from the source.

Is there any reason why we cannot simply overwrite the existing atlassian-jira folder on our server with our compiled and expanded WAR file contents? We are preserving the existing jira-application.properties file, so we have the same JIRA home configured.

We've tested this method, and it seems as if everything is functioning well and as expected. Any reason why we shouldn't do this and instead install Tomcat and follow the directions here?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Well, that might work as well. In essence, both are the same.

I think the important thing is to keep them separate and so you know who is the culprit if something goes wrong. If you just overwrite and if something goes wrong, you will have to see if it is the problem caused by overwriting or the way you built the source or something else.