Purpose

There are times when the Confluence home directory might need to be relocated. For example, perhaps the disk containing that directory has run out of space.

Solution

 To relocate the home directory, follow the steps below:

1. Stop Confluence.
2. Backup the Confluence home directory.
3. Move the Confluence home directory to the new location.

4. Edit the <confluence-install-directory>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties file by changing the confluence.home property to point to the new location:

    confluence.home=/path/to/your/confluence/home

   Note for Windows Users

   Each backslash in your path must be written as a forward slash.

   For example, c:\confluence\data should be written as c:/confluence/data

   Note for Unix Users

   NOTE: If the path of your confluence.home directory contains symlinks, please set confluence.home to the absolute path, otherwise problems may occur.

   For example, where /data is a symlink to -> /var/data/

   confluence.home=/data/confluence/ should be written as confluence.home=/var/data/confluence

5. Start Confluence