I am trying to config Spring 4.3 (Not Spring Boot) alternative config file location in Windows using Tomcat’s catalina.bat file:

set CATALINA_OPTS=-Dspring.config.location=D:Softwareapache-tomcat-8.5.47-1confCatalinalocalhostenv

This is a directory.

But upon startup, I am getting

nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [env/application-default.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

But the file is in the specified directory. I cannot start the application.

I want to know how to do it for Spring application (Not Spring Boot).