starting neo4j data at user defined directory

Question

I created a directory where I'm storing my current graph.db which is different than the default location of /var/lib/neo4j/data/database. I changed my neo4j.config file providing new location of the database as dbms.directories.data=/neo4j/data, but somehow I cannot start the neo4j server using systemctl start neo4j

Answer 1

When using a deb or rpm distribution package (I assume you are because you are using systemctl to start the database), the database is run under neo4j user by default and this user needs to have write permissions to the data directory.

Does the user have permissions to write to your new /neo4j/data directory?