Setting Environment variables and System properties for Tomcat Server

Setting Environment variables and System properties for Tomcat Server

Windows Environment:

Create a file called setenv.bat in tomcat bin directory Example: tomacta/bin/ setenv.bat Environment variables setting: set <OptinName>=<option value> Example: set JAVA_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m  System Properties Settings: set JAVA_OPTS =-D<propertyName>=<propertyValue> Example: set "JRE_HOME=%CATALINA_HOME%/jre1.6.0_20/win" Note: When you already configure some java option  again you want configure some you have to do following like this set JAVA_OPTS=% JAVA_OPTS% -Djava.awt.headless=true The following is example for setting multiple properties.  if multiple properties separated by space. set JAVA_OPTIONS=%JAVA_OPTIONS% -Duser.timezone=UTC -Duser.timezone=GMT -Dicescrum_config_location=/path/to/dir/where/i/can/write/config.groovy -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Linux Environment:

Create a file called setenv.sh in tomacat bin directory Example: tomcat/bin/setenv.sh Environment variables setting: export  <OptinName>=”<option value>” Example: export JAVA_OPTS=”-Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m”   System Properties Settings: export JAVA_OPTS =”-D<propertyName>=<propertyValue>” Example: export JAVA_OPTS =”-Djava.awt.headless=true” Note: When you already configure some java option again you want configure some you have to do following like this export JAVA_OPTS=”$ JAVA_OPTS -Djava.awt.headless=true" The following is example for setting multiple properties.  if multiple properties separated by space. export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -Dorg.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.ENABLE_CLEAR_REFERENCES=false -Duser.timezone=GMT -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

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