Documentation for JIRA 5.2. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

If JIRA is running as service in Windows, stdout_*.log and stderr_*.log files will be created. These files will grow rapidly and over time can become very large. You can change the location of these files to a different location, if needed.

To change the stdout_.log and stderr_.log location,

  1. Remove the JIRA service.

  2. Open the service.bat file with editor and find the parameter below:

    set PR_LOGPATH=%CATALINA_BASE%\logs
set PR_STDOUTPUT=auto
set PR_STDERROR=auto
  3. Change set PR_LOGPATH=%CATALINA_BASE%\logs to any location you wish, for example set PR_LOGPATH=D:\logs
  4. Run service.bat install JIRA_SERVICE_NAME to install JIRA as a service again.
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