Hi Luis, Our documentation around configuration needs updating, thanks for the report.
No need to change anything at build time - just at runtime. export ERL_FLAGS="-couch_ini /myinstance1/default.ini /myinstance1/local.ini" will work. You can also modify the etc/vm.args file to include these arguments. -Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis F Urrea" <lfur...@gmail.com> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 7:41:10 PM Subject: Config files dir & LOCALCONFDIR Hi all, I am working on building a habitat.sh package for CouchDB2.0 and make it configurable. I am having a hard time getting CouchDB reading from config files at a path different from rel/couchdb/etc. default.ini local.ini The documentation states this may be configured at buildtime through the LOCALCONFDIR variable, but my findings tell me it mey not be the case anymore. I have searched through the code but can't quite figure out where this is configured. Your help is highly appreciated. Best, Luis