GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR environment variable ignored
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Key: GEOS-3224
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3224
Project: GeoServer
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Configuration
Affects Versions: 1.7.5
Reporter: Arnoud de Bruijn
Assignee: Justin Deoliveira
Priority: Minor
I just decided to move the data-dir to a different place to make my development life easier. I set the environment variable GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR (to point to the location where the data is stored so both the geoservers on my development machine point to the same data), only to find out it still defaults to <geoserver-dir>/data in both cases.
It turns out it's ignored in GeoserverDataDirectory:findGeoServerDataDir. In the code there is an array containing 3 elements ("Java environment variable ", "Servlet context parameter ", "System environment variable ") only the switch further down checks indices 1, 2 and 3, not 0, 1 and 2 resulting in never checking System.getEnv(...);
I read using an environment variable is not the preferred way, so maybe this is intentional to discourage using it? 
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