Spring-Cloud configuration server ignores configuration properties file

Question

I am trying to create a Spring Cloud configuration server which reads the configuration data from the properties file and not a github. The server starts, but does not serve the properties from the file. I have two configuration files on the classpapath:

bootstrap.yml

spring:
application:
    name: config-server

config-server.properties

foo=bar

when I go to the url which supposedly should give me the value of the foo property:

curl  http://localhost:8888/admin/env/foo

I get an error: "timestamp":1415298615005,"status":404,"error":"Not Found","exception":"org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.mvc.EnvironmentMvcEndpoint$NoSuchPropertyException","message":"No such property: foo","path":"/admin/env/foo"}

I am wondering what I am doing wrong? As far as I understand the properties file name should match the server name in order to be recognized by the server.

---

adding native profile as spencergibb suggested did not help. my application.properties looks like:

server.port=8888
spring.profiles.active=native
spring.config.name=configserver
spring.application.name=configserver

Note, that I had to specify the server port. According to Spring Cloud Config Server documentation the configuration server starts on port 8888 by default. In my case however unless I specify the port in my config the server starts at 8080.

The POM file has no parent and a single dependency:

    <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0.M2</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

The application has nothing special in it:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableConfigServer
public class ConfigurationApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(ConfigurationApp.class, args);
    }
}

The configserver.properties file contains a single entry: foo=bar

First of all I am always getting a startup error

2014-11-07 09:35:42.852 ERROR 6972 --- [           main] b.c.PropertySourceBootstrapConfiguration : Could not locate PropertySource: I/O error on GET request for "http://localhost:8888/configserver/default/master":Connection refused: connect; nested exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

Regardless of which command I execute I am always getting the same response from the server:

{"name":"info","label":"master","propertySources":[{"name":"bootstrap","source":{}},{"name":"applicationConfig: [classpath:/application.properties]","source":{"spring.config.name":"configserver","spring.application.name":"configserver","server.port":"8888","spring.profiles.active":"native"}},{"name":"defaultProperties","source":{"spring.application.name":"bootstrap"}}]}

I tried:

http://localhost:8888/configserver/env
http://localhost:8888/configserver/env/foo
http://localhost:8888/configserver/info
http://localhost:8888/configserver/beans
http://localhost:8888/configserver/health

The response is always as above

Answer 1

By default, the config server serves properties from git. You will need to set the profile to native using --spring.profiles.active=native for the configserver to serve the spring environment. The spring.config.name for the config server is programmatically set to spring.config.name=configserver so your properties file will need to be configserver.properties.

Answer 2

The "/admin/env" endpoint in a config server only serves the local configuration of the server itself. The server is usually just a regular Spring Boot app, so it gets its configuration from "application.properties". If you want to pick it up from "config-server.properties" you need to set "spring.config.name" or "spring.config.location" (just like a normal Boot app).