{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/issues/7155","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/issues/7155/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/issues/7155/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/issues/7155/events","html_url":"https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/7155","id":155436078,"number":7155,"title":"Starting neo4j server with an existing local database dir out of installation path fails","user":{"login":"dalanlan","id":5979704,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5979704?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan","html_url":"https://github.com/dalanlan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dalanlan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"fc2929"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/labels/operability","name":"operability","color":"5319e7"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/neo4j/neo4j/labels/remoting","name":"remoting","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":21,"created_at":"2016-05-18T07:43:02Z","updated_at":"2016-05-19T06:42:16Z","closed_at":"2016-05-19T06:42:16Z","body":"### Steps to reproduce\r\n1. install `$ brew install neo4j`\r\n2. import data from legacy databse via `neo4j-import`, say the graph path is my_graph_absolute_path\r\n3. edit `/usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/3.0.0/libexec/conf/neo4j.conf`:  #`dbms.active_database=my_graph_absolute_path`\r\n4. try to connect the graph db and see what we got so far `curl --user neo4j:pass_word http://localhost:7474/db/data/node/1` and tada what a shame\r\n```\r\n...\r\n\"message\" : \"Node 1 not found\",\r\n    \"errors\" : [ {\r\n      \"code\" : \"Neo.ClientError.Statement.EntityNotFound\",\r\n      \"message\" : \"Node 1 not found\"\r\n    } ]\r\n  },\r\n  \"errors\" : [ {\r\n    \"code\" : \"Neo.ClientError.Statement.EntityNotFound\",\r\n    \"message\" : \"Cannot find node with id [1] in database.\"\r\n\r\n```\r\n5 however, this is definitely not expected because I could double-check with `neo4j-shell`\r\n``` \r\nneo4j-sh (1)$ ls\r\n:Movie\r\n*TMSId =[MV000000020000] \r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Steven  Hill,172637)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Kenneth  McMillan,171072)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(William  Hurt,163079)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Pamela  Reed,159909)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Morgan  Freeman,159717)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(James  Woods,158002)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Irene  Worth,157824)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Christopher  Plummer,156353)\r\n(me)<-[:ACTED_IN]-(Sigourney  Weaver,155286)\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\n### Platform\r\n- Neo4j version: 3.0.0\r\n- Operating system: OS X 10.11.3\r\n\r\n### My word\r\nThis could be a naive question(I've already put it on SO as you suggest yet with no luck), yet from my POV, I bet it should be specified more precisely. I would love to volunteer myself to that once this is settled.\r\n\r\n"}}