Setting User Environment Variables for tomcat on Windows

Question

I am running tomcat 8 on windows 2012.

I have a webapp that needs an user environment variable to be set in order to run.

I can start tomcat and retrieve the

Answer 1

Had the same problem and I've just managed to solve it.

From an admin command prompt do the following command:

tomcat8 //US//YourServiceName ++Environment varname=value

You can set more than one variable by separating them with a semicolon (;) or a hash (#). The documentation is quite clear, but it's just difficult to believe anything's happened, because there's no visual indication anywhere, meaning if you run:

tomcat8w //ES//YourServiceName 

to get the GUI config tool you will not see the environment variable anywhere, but if you run the service it will pick it up. It's like hidden magic. Don't know why they haven't included it somewhere in the config panel.