Documentation for JIRA 4.3. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

To specify the location of your JIRA Home Directory (note that you need to do this before you build JIRA), either:

  • Edit the jira-application.properties file (see the JIRA Installation Directory page to find where this file is located), add a 'jira.home' property and set it to your desired location for the JIRA home directory. Please use forward-slashes ("/"), not back-slashes ("\").
  • Set an environment variable named JIRA_HOME in your operating system whose value is the location of your JIRA home directory. To do this:
    • On Linux/Unix, do one of the following:
      • Enter the following command at a shell/console prompt before running JIRA:
        • export JIRA_HOME = /path/to/jira/home
      • Specify the command above in a script used to start JIRA.
    • On Windows, do one of the following:
      • Configure this environment variable through the Windows user interface (typically through 'My Computer' or 'Computer')
      • Enter the following command at command prompt before running JIRA:
        • set JIRA_HOME = X:\\path\\to\\jira\‌\home
          (where X is the drive letter where your JIRA home directory is located)
      • Specify the command above in a batch file used to start JIRA.
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 locating your JIRA Home Directory completely independently of the JIRA Installation Directory (i.e. not nesting one within the other) as this will minimise information being lost during major operations (e.g. backing up and restoring instances).

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