JIRA 4.0 : Setting your JIRA Home Directory
This page last changed on Aug 23, 2009 by rosie@atlassian.com.
The JIRA Home Directory contains key data that help define how JIRA works. You must have a JIRA home directory specified for your JIRA instance before you can start it. This document describes how to set up the JIRA home directory for your JIRA instance.
You only need to specify the location of the root directory for your JIRA home. The sub-directories will be created automatically when JIRA is started or when you use a function in JIRA that requires a particular sub-directory. How do I set my JIRA home?The recommended way to specify the location of your JIRA Home Directory is to:
Alternatively, you can specify the location of your JIRA Home Directory as follows:
What location should I specify for my JIRA home?You can specify any location on a disk for your JIRA home directory. Please be sure to specify an absolute path. Please note that you cannot use the same JIRA home directory for multiple instances of JIRA. We recommend that you do not specify your JIRA home directory inside your installation directory, to prevent information from being accidentally lost during major operations (e.g. backing up and restoring instances). How do I change my JIRA home?To change the location of your JIRA home directory,
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