Crowd Home path as an Environment Variable on Windows 64-bit

Jim Pickering2

Can anyone tell me how to set the Crowd Home path as an Enviornment Variable on Windows 64-bit? It is the actual var name that Crowd expects that is unknown. There doesn't seem to be docs to setup an Environment Variable for Windows, although a comment in the actual crowd-init.properties suggests it can be done as an alternative.

Caspar Krieger

The variable name is the same as on *nix systems, and the same as the variable in the tmp file: crowd.home

On my linux system, I was able to set this variable in the tomcat's bin/setenv.sh and have Crowd recognise it.

If you're running Tomcat as a service on Windows, you might find this StackOverflow question and answer useful.

By the way, you can also specify the crowd.home property as a servlet context parameter.

Finally, if you add the line
log4j.logger.com.atlassian.config=DEBUG
to the end of crowd-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties then you'll get some debug information in the log as Crowd tries to read the property from each location.