'com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.IndexException Problem with path' Due to Invalid Index Location

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Symptoms

JIRA throws an error like:


Caused by: com.atlassian.jira.issue.index.IndexException: Problem with path D:\jira\indexpath/issues: Could not create directory: D:\jira\indexpath/issues
    at com.atlassian.jira.util.LuceneUtils.getLuceneConnection(LuceneUtils.java:90)

Cause

The indexing path is invalid.

Workaround

Re-configure the indexing path to a valid location.

Solution

Upgrade to JIRA 4.0 or later, in which the index directory is contained within the jira-home directory.

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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