diff --git a/nifi/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh b/nifi/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh
index 01a3f81b18..86e97d8657 100755
--- a/nifi/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh
+++ b/nifi/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh
@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ run() {
     # run 'start' in the background because the process will continue to run, monitoring NiFi.
     # all other commands will terminate quickly so want to just wait for them
     if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
-        (${sudo_cmd_prefix} "$JAVA" -cp "$NIFI_HOME"/conf/:"$NIFI_HOME"/lib/bootstrap/* -Xms12m -Xmx24m -Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.file="$BOOTSTRAP_CONF" org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi $@ &)
+        (cd $NIFI_HOME && ${sudo_cmd_prefix} "$JAVA" -cp "$NIFI_HOME"/conf/:"$NIFI_HOME"/lib/bootstrap/* -Xms12m -Xmx24m -Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.file="$BOOTSTRAP_CONF" org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi $@ &)
     else
-        ${sudo_cmd_prefix} "$JAVA" -cp "$NIFI_HOME"/conf/:"$NIFI_HOME"/lib/bootstrap/* -Xms12m -Xmx24m -Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.file="$BOOTSTRAP_CONF" org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi $@
+        (cd $NIFI_HOME && ${sudo_cmd_prefix} "$JAVA" -cp "$NIFI_HOME"/conf/:"$NIFI_HOME"/lib/bootstrap/* -Xms12m -Xmx24m -Dorg.apache.nifi.bootstrap.config.file="$BOOTSTRAP_CONF" org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi $@)
     fi
 
     # Wait just a bit (3 secs) to wait for the logging to finish and then echo a new-line.