Hey everyone, I’m having trouble with Jira on my Linux machine. I downloaded the archive, unzipped it, and set it up. The Tomcat server starts fine, and I can open the webapp on port 8080. But I’m getting a weird error in my browser:
Your current jira.home is: "/media/storage/jira_home" which is not absolute.
Review our documentation for more information on setting your JIRA home.
I’m pretty sure that’s an absolute path, right? I’ve tried other paths like ~/jira too, but no luck. Any ideas what could be causing this? It’s driving me nuts! Has anyone else run into this before? Any tips would be super helpful. Thanks!
hey oscar, had similar issue. check ur jira-config.properties file in the atlassian-jira folder. make sure jira.home= is set to the correct absolute path. double-check permissions too. sometimes linux can be finicky w/ paths. good luck!
I encountered a similar issue when setting up Jira on my Linux box. The problem might be related to how the path is interpreted. Try using the full, expanded path instead of any shortcuts or relative paths. For example, use ‘/home/yourusername/jira_home’ rather than ‘~/jira_home’. Also, ensure there are no trailing slashes in the path.
Another thing to check is the JIRA_HOME environment variable. Make sure it’s correctly set in your shell configuration or the Jira startup script. You can verify this by running ‘echo $JIRA_HOME’ in the terminal.
If these don’t work, consider running Jira with verbose logging enabled to get more detailed error messages. This might provide additional clues about what’s causing the issue.