The Jira home directory
The Jira home directory contains key data and configuration files specific to each Jira instance, such as Jira's database connectivity details. As we will see later in this chapter, setting the path to this directory is part of the installation process.
There is a one-to-one relationship between Jira and this directory. This means that each Jira instance must have only one home directory, and each directory can serve only one Jira instance. In the old days, this directory was sometimes called the data directory. It has now been standardized as the Jira Home. It is for this reason that, for the remainder of this book, we will refer to this directory as JIRA_HOME.
The JIRA_HOME directory can be created anywhere on your ...
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