To change the session timeout settings in Jira, perform the following steps:
- Open the web.xml file from the JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF directory in a text editor.
- Locate the <session-config> line, and change the value of session-timeout to the desired number in minutes:
<session-config> <session-timeout>300</session-timeout> </session-config>
- Restart Jira for the changes to apply.