Documentation for JIRA 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

The JIRA logo ' ' is displayed in the user's browser to identify the JIRA browser tab. To use a custom image for your JIRA site:

  1. Obtain or create an image in PNG file format. To maximise browser compatibility, it should be 32x32 pixels, 71x71 DPI and have 8 bit colour depth.
  2. In your JIRA install, find the <jira-installation-directory>/atlassian-jira/images/icons directory (assuming you are using a 'recommended' distribution of JIRA).
  3. Backup the file favicon.png
  4. Replace the favicon.png with your custom PNG image.
    (info)You may also need to backup and replace the following images in your JIRA Installation Directory:
  5. Restart your application server.

Users may need to clear their browser cache to view the new image.

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