Spring/spring-boot
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Provide an example of using a .conf file with a truly executable jar

Browse Source 
Closes gh-3522
This commit is contained in:
Andy Wilkinson
2015-10-05 14:14:51 +01:00
parent a4eec42813
commit bee7d24c1a
1 changed files with 17 additions and 3 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

20
spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/deployment.adoc
View File

@@ -451,9 +451,23 @@ the default behavior in a script or on the command line:
in the script.
|===
TIP: With the exception of `JARFILE` and `APP_NAME`, the above settings can be placed in
a `.conf` next to the jar. For example the jar `/var/myapp/myapp.jar` would attempt to
source the configuration file `/var/myapp/myapp.conf`.
[[deployment-script-customization-conf-file]]
==== Customizing the startup script with a conf file
With the exception of `JARFILE` and `APP_NAME`, the above settings can be configured using
a `.conf` file,
[indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes,attributes"]
----
JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024M
LOG_FOLDER=/custom/log/folder
----
The file should be situated next to the jar file and have the same name but suffixed with
`.conf` rather than `.jar`. For example, a jar named `/var/myapp/myapp.jar` will use the
configuration file named `/var/myapp/myapp.conf` if it exists.