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| author | Dessalines <dessalines@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-07-13 11:33:48 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-07-13 11:33:48 -0400 |
| commit | e5d3e3a9c3e3257aaa5b1febd2893aa169c6c818 (patch) | |
| tree | 248bd1bd7226a76b53ac5c9480ada6c7dbd15fe9 /docs | |
| parent | ea0881f87e4712810b0c1c7a6e510ba27b118577 (diff) | |
Adding a configurable config location through an env var. (#960)
* Adding a configurable config location through an env var.
- Its `LEMMY_CONFIG_LOCATION`
- Fixes #764
* Using a static for CONFIG_FILE again.
* Make clippy happy
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/src/administration_configuration.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/src/administration_configuration.md b/docs/src/administration_configuration.md index 56448de4..cc4c5689 100644 --- a/docs/src/administration_configuration.md +++ b/docs/src/administration_configuration.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ The configuration is based on the file This file also contains documentation for all the available options. To override the defaults, you can copy the options you want to change into your local `config.hjson` file. +To use a different `config.hjson` location than the current directory, set the environment variable `LEMMY_CONFIG_LOCATION`. + Additionally, you can override any config files with environment variables. These have the same name as the config options, and are prefixed with `LEMMY_`. For example, you can override the `database.password` with `LEMMY_DATABASE__POOL_SIZE=10`. |