JIRA Will not Start Due to The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined error
Symptoms
JIRA will not start and the the following appears on the command line:
root@server1]# /opt/atlassian/jira/bin/start-jira.sh
To run JIRA in the foreground, start the server with start-jira.sh -fg
executing using dedicated user: jira1
The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined
This environment variable is needed to run this program
Cause
The CATALINA_HOME
environment variable is defined for the user running JIRA.
Resolution
Unset the CATALINA_HOME
environment variable and remove it from any profile scripts (e.g. ~/.profile
, ~/.bashrc) and start JIRA again.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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