upgrade_Point JIRA to JIRA Home
If your new JIRA 6.4 installation is on a new server, copy the backup of your existing JIRA Home Directory from the old server to the new server before proceeding.
To set up a "recommended" (not WAR) distribution:
- Open the JIRA Configuration Tool.
- Click the JIRA Home tab.
- Update the JIRA Home Directory field:
- If your JIRA 6.4 installation is on a new server, update the JIRA Home Directory field to the path of your copied JIRA Home directory.
- If your JIRA 6.4 installation is on the same server, update the JIRA Home Directory field to the path of your existing JIRA Home directory.
For more information about this directory, see JIRA Home Directory.
To set up a WAR distribution:
- Edit the
jira-application.properties
file located within the<jira-application-dir>/WEB-INF/classes
subdirectory of your new JIRA 6.4 Installation Directory JIRA Installation Directory. - Update the
jira.home
property in this file to the path of the new JIRA Home Directory:- If your JIRA 6.4 installation is on a new server, update the
jira.home
property to the path of your copied JIRA Home directory. - If your JIRA 6.4 installation is on the same server, update the
jira.home
property to the path of your existing JIRA Home directory.
For more information about this directory, see JIRA Home Directory.
- If your JIRA 6.4 installation is on a new server, update the
- Remove the '#' at the beginning of the
jira.home
line (so that JIRA no longer regards this line as a comment). - Save your updated
jira-application.properties
file.
You can also set your JIRA Home Directory's location by defining an operating system environment variable JIRA_HOME
. This value of this variable takes precedence over the value of the jira.home
property in the jira-application.properties
file in your JIRA Installation Directory. See Setting your JIRA Home Directory for details.