Documentation for JIRA 4.0. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

About the JIRA Configuration Tool

JIRA Configuration Tool is a GUI application that is run before you start the JIRA Web Server in order to configure the JIRA Home Directory and the Database Connection.
The application can be run again at a later date, but you must restart JIRA in order to pick up the new settings.

The Configuration Tool is available in JIRA Standalone edition only. People using the WAR edition must still manually change the configuration files.

Starting the Configuration Tool

For Windows:
Run config.bat in the bin subdirectory of the JIRA installation folder.

For other Operating Systems:
Run config.sh in the bin subdirectory of the JIRA installation folder.

(info) Please Note: You may need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to run the JIRA Configuration Tool. See Installing Java for details.

The Configuration Tool will display your current configuration settings if any are already set.

Configure the Database Type.

Click on the "Database" tab.
From the "Database type" drop-down you can choose your database.

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