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I am trying to put bootstrap.properties from outside my jar, so it won't get overridden by other developers by mistake. Could you please advice here?

This is its' content - directing to the spring server config

# application name
spring.application.name=elixium
# The server entry point
spring.cloud.config.uri=http://localhost:8888
                Can you give a little more detail? What have you tried? If you've tried something, and failed, what was the error?
– spencergibb
                Apr 21, 2016 at 8:06
                I have tried using @PropertyResource and he ignored the external location and started on tomcat default port
– Amir Botvinik Nadiv
                Apr 21, 2016 at 8:09
Spring Cloud uses the the same locations as spring boot to find bootstrap.properties (or .yml). So classpath:,classpath:/config,file:,file:config/ is the default search path, ./config/ is the highest precedence. If your file is in ./config or ./ it should just work. The property (spring.cloud.bootstrap.location) to change the location is slightly different than boot.
                Thanks Spencer , yes I would like to change it's location . So should I use spring.cloud.bootstrap.location inside bootstrap.properties ?
– Amir Botvinik Nadiv
                Apr 21, 2016 at 8:44
                No, it needs to be a env var, cmd line arg or java system property, otherwise you get a chicken and egg problem. How can you read the location of bootstrap.properties if you don't know the location ahead of time.
– spencergibb
                Apr 21, 2016 at 11:27
                I have tried to use as enviorment parameters spring.cloud.bootstrap.location=C:\test\test.. This did not work  and i have tried to do the same as cmd line param. Maybe can you link me to an example for this 2 approaches? I have tried to change location but it is not clear how. Tnx
– Amir Botvinik Nadiv
                Apr 21, 2016 at 13:16
                Thank you Spencer - I have solved it with environment variable :   spring.cloud.bootstrap.location    C:\tradair\config\tang\bootstrap.properties
– Amir Botvinik Nadiv
                Apr 21, 2016 at 14:34
spring.cloud.bootstrap.location behaves like spring.config.location (in Spring Boot 2), it replaces the location of these configuration files.    
To make it working, it has to defined as a system property.

For example :  
With Jar : 
java -jar
     -Dspring.cloud.bootstrap.location=anyLocation/bootstrap.yml 
With Spring Boot maven plugin :
mvn spring-boot:run 
   -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="-Dspring.cloud.bootstrap.location=anyLocation/bootstrap.yml"
        
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