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tell production server to look for modules in secondary location?

Ben Bimber

2015-10-16 09:18

Status: Closed

On one of our production servers, we are now including a module not part of our core distribution. when i do the normal manual-install.sh script, this blows away labkey/modules, meaning my custom module is also gone. i thought there was some way to tell the server to also check in a secondary location, like labkey/customModules, where I could drop my additional modules and they would remain even if I update my core code. I tried /extraModules and /customModules on the hope there was a default setting. Do I need to add something to ROOT.xml/labkey.xml?

Thanks.

jeckels responded:	2015-10-16 09:24
By default, the server will look in ./externalModules as well as ./modules: https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=moduleUpgrades You can override this to point at a different location using the -Dlabkey.externalModulesDir system property on the command-line for starting up the Tomcat VM. Thanks, Josh

Ben Bimber responded:	2015-10-16 09:29
that's it. just couldnt remember the name. thanks.