How to change Jenkins default folder on Windows?
- Stop Jenkins service
- Move
C:\Users\Coola\.jenkins
folder tod:\Jenkins
- Using regedit, change
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Jenkins\ImagePath
to"d:\Jenkins\jenkins.exe"
- Start service
Apparently, grams' answer works but is not preferred. In Windows software and data/configuration files are supposed to reside in different places. This should be well known to Unix guys, it is basically like having a home directory. However, the wording with regard to JENKINS_HOME is broken anyways as setting an environment variable does not help despite what is being said in the help text.
I used the procedure that is described here: http://tech.nitoyon.com/en/blog/2014/02/25/jenkins-home-win/
Basically:
- Stop Jenkins service
- Edit entry
<env name="JENKINS_HOME" value="%BASE%"/>
injenkins.xml
in the Jenkins installation directory. This will be something likeC:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins
. In your casevalue
has to be set tod:\Jenkins
Move Files from the installation directory to the new destination,
d:\Jenkins
, all except (some of them may not exist in a fresh installation)- jre folder
- jenkins.err.log
- jenkins.exe
- jenkins.exe.config
- jenkins.out.log
- jenkins.war
- jenkins.war.bak
- jenkins.war.tmp
- jenkins.wrapper.log
jenkins.xml
- Restart the service again.
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>