Documentation for JIRA 5.2. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

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 Windows, do one of the following:
    • Configure this environment variable through the Windows user interface (typically through 'My Computer' or 'Computer')
    • At the command prompt, enter the following command (with your own JIRA Home path) before running JIRA from the command prompt:
      • set JIRA_HOME=X:\path\to\JIRA\Home
        (warning) Please set your JIRA_HOME  environment variable value using this format, where:
        • X is the drive letter where your JIRA Home Directory is located and
        • no spacing has been added around the equal sign ('=')
    • Specify the command above in a batch file used to start JIRA.
  • On Linux/Solaris, do one of the following:
    • Enter the following command at a shell/console prompt (with your own JIRA Home path) before running JIRA:
      • export JIRA_HOME=/path/to/jira/home
    • Specify the command above in a script used to start JIRA.
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