How do I activate a Spring Boot profile when running from IntelliJ

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I have 5 environments    - local  my development machine   - dev  - qc  - uat  - live  - staging   I want different application properties to be used for each environment  so I have the following properties files each which have a different URL for the datasource    - application properties   containing common properties   - application-local properties  - application-dev properties  - application-qc properties  - application-uat properties  - application-live properties   I am using IntelliJ and running my app using bootRun in the Gradle plugin on my local machine   I will be using deploying the same application war file on all other environments which run Tomcat   I have tried adding       --spring profiles active local   to the run configuration under script parameters   I have tried adding      -Dspring profiles active local   to the run configuration under VM options   Neither work  I keep seeing the INFO message on startup say  No active profile set  falling back to default profiles  default  If I run my app from the windows command line using   gradle bootRun   but I first set the environment variable   set SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE local   Then everything works   So my question is  how do I activate my local spring boot profile when running bootRun from IntelliJ

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For Spring Boot 2 1 0 and later you can use  mvn spring-boot run -Dspring-boot run profiles foo bar

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I ended up adding the following to my build gradle   bootRun     environment SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE  environment SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE     local     test     environment SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE  environment SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE     test      So now when running bootRun from IntelliJ  it defaults to the  local  profile   On our other environments  we will simply set the  SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE  environment variable in Tomcat   I got this from a comment found here  https   github com spring-projects spring-boot pull 592

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Try add this command in your build gradle    So for running configure that shape

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Try this  Edit your build gradle file as followed   ext   profile   project hasProperty  profile     project  profile      local

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Set -Dspring profiles active local under program arguments

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Spring Boot seems had changed the way of reading the VM options as it evolves  Here s some way to try when you launch an application in Intellij and want to active some profile   1  Change VM options  Open  Edit configuration  in  Run   and in  VM options   add  -Dspring profiles active local  It actually works with one project of mine with Spring Boot v2 0 3 RELEASE and Spring v5 0 7 RELEASE  but not with another project with Spring Boot v2 1 1 RELEASE and Spring v5 1 3 RELEASE   Also  when running with Maven or JAR  people mentioned this   mvn spring-boot run -Drun profiles dev   or   java -jar -Dspring profiles active dev XXX jar    See here  how to use Spring Boot profiles   2  Passing JVM args  It is mentioned somewhere  that Spring changes the way of launching the process of applications if you specify some JVM options  it forks another process and will not pass the arg it received so this does not work  The only way to pass args to it  is   mvn spring-boot run -Dspring-boot run jvmArguments         Again  this is for Maven  https   docs spring io spring-boot docs current maven-plugin examples run-debug html  3  Setting  application  env var  What works for me for the second project  was setting the environment variable  as mentioned in some answer above   Edit configuration  -  Environment variable   and   SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE local

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I added -Dspring profiles active test to VM Options and then re-ran that configuration  It worked perfectly   This can be set by   Choosing Run   Edit Configurations    Go to the Configuration tab  Expand the Environment section to reveal VM options

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So for resuming    If you have the IntelliJ Ultimate the correct answer is the one provided by Daniel Bubenheim But if you don t  create in Run- gt Edit Configurations and in Configuration tab add the next Environment variable  SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE profilename  And to execute the jar do  java -jar -Dspring profiles active profilename XXX jar

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A probable cause could be that you do not pass the command line parameters into the applications main method  I made the same mistake some weeks ago   public static final void main String    args        SpringApplication run Application class  args

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If you actually make use of spring boot run configurations  currently only supported in the Ultimate Edition  it s easy to pre-configure the profiles in  Active Profiles  setting

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You can try the above way to activate a profile

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I use the Intellij Community Edition  Go to the  Run Debug Configurations    Runner tab   Environment variables   click button        Add  SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE   local  spring profiles active

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In my case I used below configuration at VM options in IntelliJ   it was not picking the local configurations but after a restart of IntelliJ it picked configuration details from IntelliJ and service started running   -Dspring profiles active local

[spring] How do I activate a Spring Boot profile when running from IntelliJ?

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