What should the $JAVA_HOME be set to for Jira Software 7?

[James Groff]

/bin/java?

[Deleted user]

Ideally, it should point to where your JAVA (version 8) is installed. What environment do you have? Try to locate it or "which" it or search it 

Note: There's a feature to ship Atlassian products with its own JDK, I'm not sure if it was implemented in JIRA 7.

[James Groff]

which returns /bin/java

Thanks Gabrielle.  I am installing on centos 7  using the .bin installer which does install open jdk version 1.8.0_71.

so I edit the /etc/environment file to have the line $JAVA_HOME=/bin/java then correct?

Thanks for your time.

[Yagnesh Bhat]

It should be the folder where your jdk is located. In CentOS, I think its something like /usr/lib/jvm/<jdk folder name>. Basically you need to make sure that this folder has the javac and java executibles.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

For the path, the JAVA_HOME should be set to the base installation of the whole Java installation.  You've run "which java" which tells you what java runs according to your path, but that's not the installation.  If you try "ls -l /bin/java", you'll find it's actually a symbolic link to somewhere else (and often, the target is also a symbolic link).  You need to follow those to the end point, which will be something like /usr/share/jvm/oracle_java_1.8.16/bin/java.  The base install is (usually) the directory above the bin, so for my example, you'd set it to /usr/share/jvm/oracle_java_1.8.16

But as Gabrielle says, if you've used the installer, it should have done all the work for you - java home being set by the scripts it's built for you!