How to change Jenkins default folder on Windows?

Question

How to change Jenkins default folder on Windows where Jenkins runs as Windows service. I want to change C:\\Users\\Coola\\.jenkins folder to d:\\Jenkins<

Answer 1

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>