# Changelog location outside the jar file?

**URL:** https://forum.liquibase.org/t/changelog-location-outside-the-jar-file/5613
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/changelog-location-outside-the-jar-file/5613 "2021-06-17T15:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![fabiopires10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@fabiopires10](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/fabiopires10)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/changelog-location-outside-the-jar-file/5613/1 "2021-06-17T15:31:29Z")

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Is it possible that in the property spring.liquibase.change-log i point to a changelog file outside of my jar file?

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### Author: ![aditi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.liquibase.org/aditi/32/356_2.png) [@aditi](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/aditi)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/changelog-location-outside-the-jar-file/5613/2 "2021-06-29T19:19:13Z")

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Hi @fabiopires10,

Yes you can point to a changelog file outside of the jar file using a relative path or add ‘/’ to the classpath parameter. You can find more details on this page

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### Author: ![rakhi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.liquibase.org/rakhi/32/288_2.png) [@rakhi](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/rakhi)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/changelog-location-outside-the-jar-file/5613/3 "2021-06-30T05:28:08Z")

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Adding the answer to @fabiopires10’s question from his [SO post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68084637/liquibase-use-a-changelog-outside-of-my-jar-file), so that someone else looking for the same gets the solution to it.

> If you are using the Java liquibase Api just use a ResourceAccessor
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> ```auto
> ResourceAccessor accessor= new FileSystemResourceAccessor("C:\\Users\\demo\\Documents\\Migrations");
> return new Liquibase(changelog, accessor, connection);
> 
> ```

Thanks!  
Rakhi Agrawal