Setting Spring Profile variable

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I have two Spring profiles  dev and test  I want to set the active profile in the server environment  I don t want to set it in my code so that wherever I deploy my application the profile gets loaded based on the profile in the server   How can I do that

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In the  lt tomcat-home gt  conf catalina properties file  add this new line  spring profiles active dev

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For Eclipse  setting -Dspring profiles active variable in the VM arguments would do the trick   Go to     Right Click Project --  Run as --  Run Configurations --  Arguments   And add your -Dspring profiles active dev in the VM arguments

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You can simply set a system property on the server as follows     -Dspring profiles active test   Edit  To add this to tomcat in eclipse  select Run - gt  Run Configurations and choose your Tomcat run configuration   Click the Arguments tab and add -Dspring profiles active test at the end of VM arguments   Another way would be to add the property to your catalina properties in your Servers project  but if you add it there omit the -D  Edit  For use with Spring Boot  you have an additional choice   You can pass the property as a program argument if you prepend the property with two dashes     Here are two examples using a Spring Boot executable jar file     System Property   user host     java -jar -Dspring profiles active test myproject jar   Program Argument   user host     java -jar myproject jar --spring profiles active test

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For Tomcat 8   Linux    Create setenv sh and update it with following   export SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE dev  Windows   Create setenv bat and update it with following   set SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE dev

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as System environment Variable   Windows  Start -  type  envi  select environment variables and add a new   Name  spring profiles active Value  dev  or whatever yours is   Linux  add following line to  etc environment under PATH   spring profiles active prod  or whatever profile is   then also export spring profiles active prod so you have it in the runtime now

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There are at least two ways to do that   defining context param in web xml     that breaks  quot one package for all environments quot  statement  I don t recommend that  defining system property -Dspring profiles active your-active-profile   I believe that defining system property is a much better approach  So how to define system property for Tomcat  On the internet I could find a lot of advice like  quot modify catalina sh quot  because you will not find any configuration file for doing stuff like that  Modifying catalina sh is a dirty unmaintainable solution  There is a better way to do that  Just create file setenv sh in Tomcat s bin directory with content  JAVA OPTS  quot  JAVA OPTS -Dspring profiles active dev quot   and it will be loaded automatically during running catalina sh start or run  Here is a blog describing the above solution

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