topic Re: How to use environment variable in nuxeo.conf? in Nuxeo Forum

How to use environment variable in nuxeo.conf?

WhileLoop_ — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:45:48 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to use a environment variable in nuxeo.conf. I am using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.

I installed Nuxeo through apt-get from the Nuxeo repository.

I added "DBHOST=localhost" to "/etc/environment" then sourced the file.

When I do "echo $DBHOST" I get the output "localhost".

Then I changed the db.host line in nuxeo.conf to "nuxeo.db.host=${DBHOST}" but when I start the server it fails because it cannot connect to the database.

It works fine if I do "nuxeo.db.host=localhost".

Re: How to use environment variable in nuxeo.conf?

Florent_Guillau — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:51:34 GMT

Unfortunately there is no support in nuxeo.conf to read environment variables.

What you could do is change nuxeoctl to upate/rewrite nuxeo.conf with your environment variable before the normal startup.

Re: How to use environment variable in nuxeo.conf?

WhileLoop_ — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:28:53 GMT

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Re: How to use environment variable in nuxeo.conf?

Florent_Guillau — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:48:51 GMT

The wording is not meant to refer to OS environment variables. We'll rephrase that, thanks for the pointers.