diff --git a/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/RunTask.groovy b/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/RunTask.groovy
index 58683dcccf..de7b11e803 100644
--- a/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/RunTask.groovy
+++ b/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/RunTask.groovy
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ class RunTask extends DefaultTask {
         jvmArgs("-Xverify:none")
         args(new File(project.buildDir, 'server/config.json').toString())
         environment 'NODE_ENV', 'development'
+        environment 'SCM_WEBAPP_HOMEDIR', extension.getHome()
         classpath project.buildscript.configurations.classpath
         if (configFileDirectory != '') {
           classpath configFileDirectory
diff --git a/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/ScmServer.groovy b/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/ScmServer.groovy
index d7143bc3f9..22894c44ac 100644
--- a/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/ScmServer.groovy
+++ b/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/ScmServer.groovy
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ class ScmServer {
 
     System.setProperty("jakarta.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory", "com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl");
 
-    System.setProperty('scm.home', configuration.home)
     if (configuration.disableCorePlugins) {
       info('disable core plugin extraction')
       System.setProperty('sonia.scm.boot.disable-core-plugin-extraction', 'true')
diff --git a/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/WriteServerConfigTask.groovy b/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/WriteServerConfigTask.groovy
index 12cbb4b526..ea20634368 100644
--- a/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/WriteServerConfigTask.groovy
+++ b/build-plugins/src/main/groovy/com/cloudogu/scm/WriteServerConfigTask.groovy
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ class WriteServerConfigTask extends DefaultTask {
     serverConfig.getParentFile().mkdirs()
 
     def config = [
-      home: extension.getHome(),
       port: extension.getPort(),
       contextPath: '/scm',
       stage: 'DEVELOPMENT',