Change the Base URL of Jira server in the database
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Summary
You may come across situations where you're unable to edit the Base URL through the UI. This article walks through the process of updating the Base URL through the database. An example error in the UI
"Your session has expired. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page."
Solution
Manual manipulation of the database can be dangerous. Please make sure you have a backup of your database before you attempt these changes.
You can retrieve the base URL from the propertystring table:
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select propertyvalue from propertyentry PE
join propertystring PS on PE.id=PS.id
where PE.property_key = 'jira.baseurl';In order to update the Base URL, run the following update in your JIRA database replacing the URL and restart JIRA.
For PostgresSQL:
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update propertystring
set propertyvalue = 'http://jira.servername.com'
from propertyentry PE
where PE.id=propertystring.id
and PE.property_key = 'jira.baseurl';For MySQL:
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update propertystring, propertyentry
set propertystring.propertyvalue = 'http://jira.servername.com'
where propertystring.ID = propertyentry.ID
and propertyentry.PROPERTY_KEY = 'jira.baseurl'For Oracle:
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update propertystring
set propertyvalue='http://jira.servername.com'
where id=(select id from propertyentry where property_key = 'jira.baseurl');Was this helpful?