How to change Jenkins default folder on Windows?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12689139/how-to-change-jenkins-default-folder-on-windows

 

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Stop Jenkins service Move C:\Users\Coola\.jenkins folder to d:\Jenkins Using regedit, change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Jenkins\ImagePath to "d:\Jenkins\jenkins.exe" Start service share | improve this answer         answered Oct 3 '12 at 10:04          grams 311 2 4

The answer helped. In addition, I had to wipe out the workspaces of all my jobs which use the tfs plugin to get the source code. This was failing with 'Unable to determine the workspace' error. –  GarethOwen Nov 20 '12 at 10:37 3                                                                                     I also had to add a new Inbound Rule to Windows Firewall, just duplicating the existing one for c:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jre\bin\java.exe for the java.exe in the new folder –  GarethOwen Nov 20 '12 at 13:29 add comment

            

 

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When you read Administering Jenkins you can read all options how to modify the JENKINS_HOME environment variable. On this website you can read how to configure you Tomcat container to override the JENKINS_HOME environment variable, they advise to create the file $CATALINA_BASE/conf/localhost/jenkins.xml, with the following content: <Context docBase="../jenkins.war"> <Environment name="JENKINS_HOME" type="java.lang.String" value="/data/jenkins" override="true"/> </Context> share | improve this answer edited Jan 18 '13 at 12:48                 answered Jan 18 '13 at 12:38          OblongZebra 301 2 7

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And in addition to grams answer, the most important part is creating an environment variable named JENKINS_HOME with value "D:\Jenkins". Without that, on starting Jenkins it would again create the .jenkins folder in your user home folder. share | improve this answer         answered Oct 3 '12 at 12:00          dunni 6,925 1 17 39

1                                                                                     It may not be necessary. AFAIK it seems that the native windows installer does not create (or need) JENKINS_HOME environment variable. Check out issue #JENKINS-13530 But I guess it's safer to check JENKINS_HOME anyway. –  grams Oct 3 '12 at 14:02 1                                                                                     You don't need the Windows installer to install Jenkins as a service. You can also simply run the WAR and then select it from the menu. And in that case your right, it isn't necessary, since Jenkins creates a jenkins.xml file, which sets the current directory as JENKINS_HOME. –  dunni Oct 3 '12 at 15:11 add comment

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