Base Directory

The SCM-Manager base directory aka. home directory, contains all data which is created by SCM-Manager such as repositories and configurations. The location of the base directory depends on your operating system and type of installation.

Type of Installation Base directory
Docker /var/lib/scm
RPM /var/lib/scm
DEB /var/lib/scm
Unix ~/.scm
Mac OS X ~/Library/Application Support/SCM-Manager
Windows %APPDATA%\SCM-Manager

Change base directory location

The location of the base directory can be changed by setting the environment variable SCM_WEBAPP_HOMEDIR.

export SCM_WEBAPP_HOMEDIR=/home/scm
/opt/scm-server/bin/scm-server