# Installing Ignition 8 in diferent directories

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/installing-ignition-8-in-diferent-directories/48597>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 7, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/installing-ignition-8-in-diferent-directories/48597 "2021-07-07T23:54:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![vlay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f0a364/32.png) [@vlay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/vlay)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/installing-ignition-8-in-diferent-directories/48597/1 "2021-07-07T23:54:11Z")

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Hello, I was hoping some could help answer some questions in regards to installing ignition 8.1 in a different directory than the default. I know that there’s the location command line option but specifically I want to be able to control the locations of the ignition/data folder, and the ignition/user-lib folder. I also noticed that on 8.1 fresh installs the location of the ignition.conf file isn’t located in /etc/ignition and is instead in the default install location. How would I be able to change the locations of these folders and still have the binary for ignition 8 still be installed in /usr/local/bin

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/installing-ignition-8-in-diferent-directories/48597/2 "2021-07-08T00:03:27Z")

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I think controlling these individual locations can only be done by editing `webserver/webapps/main/web.xml` and looking for the `userlib.dir` (and others) property. There is also a `data.dir` property in there but I don’t know if it actually works or if you need to use the `-Ddata.dir=...` JVM argument in ignition.conf instead.

The installer does not “shotgun” the Ignition files into different locations on your linux system any more. I would recommend you do not pursue this without good reason.