Tomcat: configure VM properties

Question

I need to configure some VM properties for our web application. What is the right place to do this on a Tomcat 7.0 server?

Answer 1

Edit or create setenv.sh (located in /bin directory) to set your custom settings, catalina.sh will pick it up automatically.(don't edit catalina.sh!)

For Tomcat specific tuning use CATALINA_OPTS instead of JAVA_OPTS

UPDATE: Forgot to ask you the platform you are using, if it's Windows use setenv.bat instead of setenv.sh