Moving JIRA to new location on the same server

Jason Pulido

I want to move my JIRA installation to a new location on the same server.  It will connect to the same (remote) database.

Is this move handled in the same way as moving to a new server or can I just move the structure and modify config files?

Thanks in advance

John - Eugene, OR

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You don't need to make many modifications - as long as you pick up and move the installation directory without making any changes to its structure at all, it will continue to work.

For example "mv /opt/jira3 /data/jira303" will relocate the whole installation.  Only change of config is to change the startup script to look at /data/jira303

The data directory is different - if your jira-home is set to say /home/jira/jiradata and you move it to say /data/jiradata, then you'll need to edit the JIRA file that points to the data directory before you restart it.