Custom Variables passed to lucee-server.xml?

[Scott Smith]

Is it possible to pass custom variables to the lucee-server.xml? Maybe via init-params on the Tomcat web.xml? Or is there some way I can reference environment variables I have setup for the Tomcat service within the lucee-server.xml?

[Alex Skinner]

You can get at environment variables in lucee 5 check out the lucee heroku build pack for an example and we are working on an enhancement to allow you to reference env variables in your lucee config xml

Cheers

Alex

On Wednesday, 5 August 2015, Scott Smith <scottad...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to pass custom variables to the lucee-server.xml? Maybe via init-params on the Tomcat web.xml? Or is there some way I can reference environment variables I have setup for the Tomcat service within the lucee-server.xml?

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[Scott Smith]

Bummer. So this is not possible prior to version 5? As it stands I am setting up an entirely new setup/configuration for our production servers as we move from Railo to Lucee, so I think it would be a tough sell for our first stab to be running on a beta release.  We have a bunch of "shared" functionality that resides in a framework directory that sites next to many of our applications in the web root.  Also, many of our applications are nested within subdirectories.  I am trying to eliminate the need to have a different lucee-server configuration in our production/stage/dev environments solely because we don't have the same drive letter or store our code in the same directory. I have an environment variable setup for my Tomcat windows service that has this path defined, but I unfortunately only seem to be able to reference it in my Tomcat configs.  If anyone has any workaround they can think to achieve this on the stable version of Lucee or an alternative approach (other than using the Administrator web interface or maintaining multiple configs), please let me know. I will keep digging for some mechanism on my end. 

Thanks.

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[Pete Freitag]

You should still be able to get the environment variables in versions prior to 5, they are available to Java in the java.lang.System class via the getenv() method. I think he was saying the ability to reference them from lucee config files was only going to be in 5.

See: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getenv--

So while you may not be able to reference them in the config files you should still be able to configure the server at runtime using them.

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[Scott Smith]

Yeah I did figure out how to get at them from within the application, but I then realized we rely on a mapping for our applications to extend some "base" components like a base application and some others, so by the time I can access this variable in the app, it is too late.  I'd have to have that mapping configured in the XML. So far I take it that if I am not moving to 5, I will have no choice but to manage at least the one mapping with a different setting in every environment.  

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