How to make jira follow symlinks in install directory?

[Richard Kiefer]

We run Jira on Linux. In order to have all our modifications in one place, e.g. releasenote templates in a svn repository, I would like to symlink those files in the jira-install directory instead of copying them there.

Unfortunately, this does not seem to work. I replaced a releasenotes template file by a symlink to such a file, but Jira's log reports the file is not found. I tried

• setting owner to the jira user
• setting permissions to globally rwx

I fear that Java might not follow symlinks by default, but could not find a definitive answer. Can you guys help me?

We cannot use hardlinks because the directories span multiple hard drives.