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JAVA_OPTS for RedHat

I am having hard time setting JAVA_OPTS for RedHat environment for tomcat 8. I need to load properties outside the tomcat install directory. The folder structure:

----/home/tomcat -----/apache-tomcat-8 -----/remoteProperties

I want to load the properties from the remote properties folder.

Here is the setenv.sh file content:

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -DPropertyPath=/home/tomcat/remoteProperties/collections"

After deploying my war file it seems that this path is not correctly set:

FileNotFoundExcetpion /home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.41/bin/home/tomcat/remoteProperties/collections/properties/logging/logback.xml

As soon as I change content of setenv.sh and use relative path instead of absolute path:

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -DPropertyPath=../../remoteProperties/collections"

It works as expected. Is it possible to set absolute path in JAVA_OPTS? Thank you!

Solution

  • After debugging the application I noticed that FileSystemResourceLoader spring class is used to obtain some resources. Then I read in the documentation that it is mandatory to put prefix file: when using absolute path. Then I just had to change the content of setenv.sh script to:

    JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -DPropertyPath=file:/home/tomcat/remoteProperties/collections"