I’m struggling with my JIRA setup on Mac OSX and keep getting errors about the home directory not being set properly. Even though I used the configuration tool to set the path and can see that my jira-application.properties file shows jira.home = /Applications/MAMP/jira/htdocs, I still get a “No jira.home is configured” error when I try to access JIRA through my browser. I’ve double checked the properties file multiple times and the path looks correct to me. Has anyone else run into this issue before? What am I missing here?
yup, sounds like permissions might be the issue. make sure jira can read/write to that folder. also, don’t forget to restart jira after configuring, or it won’t recognize the changes.
Had the exact same issue with JIRA and MAMP. MAMP creates its own environment that messes with how JIRA reads config files. Stop MAMP completely and run JIRA by itself - see if it finds your home directory then. If it works, MAMP’s definitely overriding your environment variables or file paths. You’ll either need to run JIRA outside MAMP or tweak MAMP’s config to handle the JIRA home directory properly. Also check if the user account running MAMP actually has permissions to access that path you set up.
Had the same issue when setting up JIRA locally. JIRA was looking for the properties file somewhere else, not where I’d edited it. Check if you’ve got multiple JIRA installs or another jira-application.properties file hiding on your system. Make sure the path you set actually exists and JIRA can access it. The config tool sometimes doesn’t save changes properly - you might need to edit the file manually. Check the JIRA logs too, they’ll give you better error messages to work with.