Spring with spring.config.location

Question

I am trying to point at path to external configuration file like this:

--spring.config.location=file: C:/Users/some_user/workspace/repository1/payment-api/payment.yml

and it doesn't work. Any idea why?

Answer 1

The proper prefix is file://. On Windows you need an extra "/" in the file URL if it is absolute with a drive prefix

Try file:///C:/Users/some_user/workspace/repository1/payment-api/payment.yml instead.