Changing the Studio home directory on WebLogic Server

For a Studio installation on WebLogic Server, the default location of the Studio home directory is <MiddlewareHomeDirectory>/user_projects/domains/<StudioDomain>/eid/studio, where <MiddlewareHomeDirectory> is the directory where you installed WebLogic Server, and <StudioDomain> is the domain you created for Studio. You can, if needed, use a different directory as the Studio home directory.

To provide a pointer to the new Studio home directory, you can either:

Add a JVM parameter to setDomainEnv.cmd or setDomainEnv.sh
Add a setting to a copy of portal-ext.properties in the default Studio home directory that redirects to your custom Studio home directory

To create and configure a different location for the Studio home directory:

Create the directory you want to use as the Studio home directory.
Place portal-ext.properties in the Studio home directory:
1. Extract portal-ext.properties from the top level of the Studio for WebLogic Server download .zip file.
2. Place portal-ext.properties in the Studio home directory you created.
This is the version of portal-ext.properties you use to override default Studio configuration, for example when:
- Changing the database used for Studio
- Overriding Studio framework settings
- Configuring a Studio cluster
- Configuring a reverse proxy
To use the setDomainEnv script file (setDomainEnv.cmd for Windows and setDomainEnv.sh for Linux) to point to the new Studio home directory:
1. Open the file.
  
  The file is located in the bin subdirectory of the domain directory (<MiddlewareHomeDirectory>/user_projects/domains/endeca_studio_domain/bin/) .
2. In the file, immediately before the WL_HOME setting, add the following setting:
```
EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES=-Deid.studio.home=<pathToCustomStudioHome>
```
  For example:
```
EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES=-Deid.studio.home=/localdisk/user_projects/domains/endeca_studio_domain/eid/myhome
```
  Remember that for Windows, you must escape the back slashes. For example:
```
EXTRA_JAVA_PROPERTIES=-Deid.studio.home=C:\\Oracle\\Middleware\\user_projects\\domains\\endeca_studio_domain\\eid\\myhome
```
To use portal-ext.properties to redirect from the default Studio home directory to the custom Studio home directory:
1. Create a new empty text file.
  
  This file will only contain the parameters needed to redirect to your custom Studio home directory.
2. Add eid.studio.home and include-and-override parameters to the file.
  Set the eid.studio.home parameter to the full path to your custom Studio home directory.
  
  Set the include-and-override parameter to the full path to the portal-ext.properties file in your custom Studio home directory.
  
  For example:
```
eid.studio.home=/localdisk/user_projects/domains/endeca_studio_domain/eid/myhome
include-and-override=/localdisk/user_projects/domains/endeca_studio_domain/eid/myhome/portal-ext.properties
```
  Remember that for Windows, you must escape the back slashes. For example:
```
eid.studio.home=C:\\Oracle\\Middleware\\user_projects\\domains\\endeca_studio_domain\\eid\\myhome
include-and-override=C:\\Oracle\\Middleware\\user_projects\\domains\\endeca_studio_domain\\eid\\myhome\\portal-ext.properties
```
3. Save the file as portal-ext.properties in the default Studio home directory (<MiddlewareHomeDirectory>/user_projects/domains/<StudioDomain>/eid/studio).
In your custom Studio home directory, create the following subdirectories:
- /data/endeca-data-sources
- deploy
- weblogic-deploy
You can then continue with step 2 of the Studio deployment process.

See Deploying Studio to the WebLogic domain.