Confluence home directory migration

[Jonathan Smith]

I was just requested to relocate confluence home from atlassian/var/ to /opt/attachments due to space limitations on var.

The process seems simple with the steps found here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-relocate-the-confluence-home-directory-318668907.html

• Has anyone here migrated the home directory?
• Was there any issues/impact after doing this?

[AnnWorley]

Yes, I have migrated home directories. It is a simple as it sounds, edit the following file: <confluence_install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties and restart.

Make sure there is room in the destination for a growing attachment folder. Please note we have seen issues with using sym links in Home Directories. Confluence Home and other important directories

There can be no symbolic links within the Confluence home directory. You must define an absolute path. If disk space is an issue, place the entire confluence.home directory on a disk partition where there is enough space. The absolute path of generated files (such as exports) is compared with the absolute path of the confluence.home directory when constructing URLs. When a sub-directory has a different path, the URL will be incorrect, and you may receive "Page not found" errors. These measures are in place to prevent "directory traversal" attacks.