How to change JIRA service port number on Windows

Question

I have to run an application on a port number (8080), as Jira is already running on that port, Jira is blocking the new application to run on 8080 port.

I have changed Jira's port number in JIRA-> CONF-> Server.xml file (from 8080 to 8100) and saved the file.

Now when I start the new application on http://localhost:8080, the message

'Oops, you've found a dead link.'

is shown with Atlassian content in the background of the page.

Answer 1

Sounds as if JIRA is still running on port 8080. Did you stop and start JIRA after you updated its server.xml?

If you did, you may have updated the wrong attribute in server.xml.

You can find an example of what to update here.