How to run JIRA on a specific IP
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Solution
Problem
JIRA needs to run on a specific IP address.
Resolution
Edit the
server.xmlused by Tomcat which runs JIRAFind the connector you are currently using. The default one looks like:
Stock connector
1<Connector acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/>Add the address property like so:
Stock connector
1<Connector address="127.0.0.1" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/>ℹ️ Based on information at: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html#Standard_Implementation and http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html#Standard_Implementation
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