How to Edit the Footer in Bitbucket Server

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Summary

Each page of the Bitbucket Server's web interface includes a footer that is similar to the one below:

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There are two elements of this footer that can be customized:

  1. The Contact Support link

  2. The line that is highlighted in the screenshot above

  1. Starting with Bitbucket Server version 6.2, you can customize the Contact Support link, by adding to your bitbucket.properties file a line similar to the following:

    footer.links.contact.support=https://mylink.example.com

    and restarting your Bitbucket Server (or Data Center nodes), in order to apply the change.

    For more information please refer to: Bitbucket Server config properties - Footer.

  2. You can also customize the highlighted line of the footer, as needed, using the method described below.

'Powered by Atlassian'

Under Atlassian's customer terms, Atlassian customers may not remove proprietary Atlassian attributions or notices that are present in the Products. This may include text like "Powered by Atlassian" in a footer.

Solution

Editing Information in the footer

  1. Open the bitbucket-webapp.properties file

    • For Bitbucket Server versions prior to 5.0, this file is located in:

      <BITBUCKET_INSTALL>/atlassian-bitbucket/WEB-INF/classes/i18n

    • For Bitbucket Server version 5.0 or higher, this file is located in:

      <BITBUCKET_INSTALL>/app/WEB-INF/classes/i18n

  2. Find the following line:

    1 bitbucket.web.global.footer.licence.message=Git repository management for enterprise teams powered by {0}

    You can edit the value of this variable to display your custom footer, then save the file.

  3. Stop and start your Bitbucket Server.

  4. Open your browser, log into Bitbucket Server and verify if the footer indeed reflects your change.

Changing the footer to a language other than English works. However, if the changes are not being applied, try adding the UTF-8 encoding to represent the message you want to add. That is applicable only if the language in profile is set to English.

If you make a backup copy of the {noformat}bitbucket-webapp.properties{noformat} file prior to modifying this file, make sure you move the backup file to a different folder.

Editing information in the footer of the language pack (for other languages than English)

  1. Locate bitbucket-language-pack-<locale-version>.jar located under <BITBUCKET_INSTALL>/app/WEB-INF/atlassian-bundled-plugins

  2. Unpack the JAR with archive tools of your OS

  3. In the unpacked JAR, you need to edit WEB-INF/classes/i18n/bitbucket-webapp_<locale>.properties

  4. Adjust the same bitbucket.web.global.footer.licence.message to the required

  5. Repack the JAR file https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/build.html

  6. Replace the old JAR with a new one

  7. Restart the customized instance

The language pack is bundled plugin so the changes need to be reapplied with every minor upgrade of the customized instance including Zero Downtime upgrade. The customizations are not covered by

Atlassian Support Offerings

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Updated on April 8, 2025
Platform
Data Center only
Product
Bitbucket Data Center
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