What Happened to jiveHome?

If you're upgrading from a version prior to version 3, you might wonder about the jiveHome directory. The jiveHome directory was where you put (and found) the working files for your community. Caches, themes, plugins, logs -- that sort of thing.

As of version 3, the jiveHome directory is replaced by the jive.instance.home environment variable. Each instance depends on three environment variables to identify its place in the bigger picture of its environment:

jive.home -- The root of all Jive software on the filesystem. Shared resources like Apache and Tomcat binaries are found here, as are individual instances.
jive.name -- Unique, human-readable identifier of an instance within the local deployment (and importantly, not across all deployments); this value influences where the instance lives in a managed deployment (i.e., platform) and various other subtle artifacts like log file names.
jive.instance.home -- Previously jiveHome. This is where the application puts working files, including caches, plugins, themes, etc. For example, by default this would be /usr/local/jive/applications/sbs/home/.

When you migrate your application to the platform, the contents of the jiveHome directory are distrbuted to places that are better suited to the platform. The following table list the new locations of resources previous found in jiveHome.

Resource	Location Prior to Version 3	Location in the Platform
Application logs (including those for database backups)	<jiveHome>/logs	/usr/local/jive/var/logs
Installed plugins	<jiveHome>/plugins	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/plugins
User-created themes	<jiveHome>/themes	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/themes
Cached attachments	<jiveHome>/attachments	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/attachments
Cached images	<jiveHome>/images	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/images
Cached data	<jiveHome>/cache	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/caches
Resources directory	<jiveHome>/resources	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/resources
Local system database	<jiveHome>/database	/usr/local/jive/var/work/sbs/data/postgres-8.3
jive_startup.xml file	<jiveHome>/jive_startup.xml	/usr/local/jive/applications/<app_name>/home/jive_startup.xml