--- conf/nexus.properties.orig	2016-09-17 19:33:10 UTC
+++ conf/nexus.properties
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ nexus-webapp=${bundleBasedir}/nexus
 nexus-webapp-context-path=/nexus
 
 # Nexus section
-nexus-work=${bundleBasedir}/../sonatype-work/nexus
+nexus-work=%%WORKDIR%%
+nexus-log=%%LOGDIR%%
+nexus-conf=%%ETCDIR%%
 runtime=${bundleBasedir}/nexus/WEB-INF
 
 # orientdb buffer size in megabytes
