Artifactory not using specified home directory - tomcat8

Question

I'm currently hosting Artifactory on Tomcat8/JDK1.8.
If I check the system info screen, I can see that files are being written in /u01/usr/share/tomcat8/.artifactory/
However, in the servlet configuration in bin/setenv.sh, I specified the Artifactory home to be somewhere else:
-DARTIFACTORY_HOME=/u01/opt/artifactory
Then, I discovered in the docs, it's supposed to be lower case:
-Dartifactory_home=/u01/opt/artifactory
I rebooted Tomcat after the changes and the path targetted is still /u01/usr/share/tomcat8/.artifactory. The folder is owned by the user running Tomcat as well.
Why isn't it using the specified home dir?

Answer 1

This seems a bit old but for others that struggle with it, you need to set an Environment variable ARTIFACTORY_HOME in your Tomcat startup script not a System variable via -D parameter.
Linux
set ARTIFACTORY_HOME=/pathto/your/artifactory
Windows
"set ARTIFACTORY_HOME=C:\path to your/artifactory"
Notice the quotes for Windows
System properties are set on the Java command line using the -Dpropertyname=value syntax. They can also be added at runtime using System.setProperty(String key, String value) or via the various System.getProperties().load() methods.
To get a specific system property you can use System.getProperty(String key) or System.getProperty(String key, String def).
Environment variables are set in the OS, e.g. in Linux export HOME=/Users/myusername or on Windows SET WINDIR=C:\Windows etc, and, unlike properties, may not be set at runtime.
To get a specific environment variable you can use System.getenv(String name).