HI .. Can someone explains how to change the default configuration files locations such as storage directory and flows locations, the default is HOME/.prefect/ would like to move it to /data/prefect_server/. Can someone point me to the proper docs

For Prefect 2, there is an env variable. See this. There is a snippet that lists all of the environment variables. For Prefect 1, check this

Thanks @Kevin Kho. Using version 1. What I did was: 1. export PREFECT__USER_CONFIG_PATH = /data/prefect_home/.prefect/config.toml 2. inside the config.toml: a. home_dir = "/data/prefect_home/.prefect" 3. prefect server stop 4. prefect server start 5. create a flow 6. go to the UI open a flow and open the overview tab a. toggle the details tab in left box, the Flow Locations still points to /home/{user}/.prefect/flows/prefect/{timestamp}

Where is the

config.toml

? Server side or on the local machine side? I think that looks right. I would expect the config.toml to be on the machine you are registering from You can also do:

flow.storage = Local(directory=..)

and it would save it there.

all on the server side. what I did was: cp .prefect from my home directory to /data/prefect_home then I sat the env variable to this new location (steps mentioned above)

You will need that in the place you register from I think

I deleted .prefect from my home directory now the UI works but I can't registry new flows .. not sure why but still the env variable is not being used. The error received now "prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: Malformed response received from Cloud - please ensure that you are authenticated. See

prefect auth login --help

." strange since I'm using server backend not cloud.

Do

prefect backend server

to point to server and set

PREFECT__SERVER__ENDPOINT=<http://IP_OF_VIRTUAL_MACHINE/graphql:4200>

okay i see now.. the default is cloud once I did

$ prefect backend server

the .prefect created in the home of the user once again

So that the UI knows what API to use