install jira in Linux issue

[Xiuqing Bao]

After I finish installing Jira, I went to the Jira directory, I tried to find the directories called 'bin' and 'home', but I can not find both of them. What I found are 'caches', 'data',' database', 'dbconfig.xml', 'export' etc.

I have tried both the default install and the custom install, both have this issue, please help me.

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[Andrew Frayling · Accepted solution]

Hi Cathy,

When you install JIRA there are 2 directories that are relevant, the JIRA installation directory and the JIRA home directory which are located in different places on the filesystem. The JIRA home directory is the directory where JIRA keeps it's caches, indexes, et.c and that's the directory you have found. There should be another directory (usually under /opt or /usr/local on Linux) which will contain the JIRA install and its binaries.

As an example I usually install JIRA with:

JIRA Home: /data/jira5

JIRA Installation: /usr/local/jira or /opt/jira

Have a look at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Installation+Directory and http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/JIRA+Home+Directory for more details on these directories.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.

EDIT: if you search your Linux filesystem for the file "jira-application.properties" that will show you the branch of the filesystem where the JIRA installation directory is.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

As well as that, the directories you found indicate that you are looking at the Jira "home" directory (which doesn't have to be called "home", you can call it anything you want, as long as you tell Jira what it is). In Andrew's example, he'll have those directories in /data/jira5, and he'd find the /bin as /usr/local/jira/bin or opt/jira/bin

[Andrew Frayling]

Hi Cathy,

If the question is solved could you mark my answer as correct please?

Thanks,

Andrew.