Spring Cloud Configuration Server not working with local properties file

Here is what I did:

following https://medium.com/@danismaz.furkan/spring-cloud-config-with-file-system-backend-c18ae16b7ad5

1) !!dont forget your VM options!!:

-Dspring.profiles.active=native

(in Netbeans : configserver->project->properties>Run->VM options

2) Either in application.properties

#spring.cloud.config.server.native.searchLocations=file:///C:/tmp/config

spring.cloud.config.server.native.searchLocations=classpath:/config

or applications.yml

spring:

    cloud:

         config:

            server:

                native:

                    search-locations  : file:///C:/tmp/config
                    #search-locations : classpath:/config

Notes:

n1: search-locations and searchLocations both work

n2: file:/// => hard file path

Like

c:/temp/config/
           app-admin.yml
           app-admin-develop.yml
           .... 

n3: for your profile config files

classpath:/

Like

Other sources/src/main/resources/config/app-admin.yml

n4: I couldnt made file paths work without setting the vm options. Dont forget! Just setting spring.profiles.active=native in your application config does not do the trick for me

n5: example http queries

http://localhost:8998/app-admin/default/yml

gives app-admin.yml

http://localhost:8998/app-admin/develop/yml

gives app-admin-develop.yml

All my code is here https://github.com/spencergibb/communityanswers/tree/so27131143

src/main/java/Application.java

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableConfigServer
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

src/main/resources/application.yml

spring:
  application:
     name: myconfigserver
  profiles:
     active: native

my:
  property: myvalue

src/main/resources/myapp.yml

my:
  otherprop: myotherval

To get the properties for an app named myapp, do the following.

curl http://localhost:8080/myapp/default

{
     "name": "default",
     "label": "master",
     "propertySources": [
          {
                "name": "applicationConfig: [classpath:/myapp.yml]",
                "source": {
                     "my.otherprop": "myotherval"
                }
          },
          {
                "name": "applicationConfig: [classpath:/application.yml]",
                "source": {
                     "spring.application.name": "myconfigserver",
                     "spring.profiles.active": "native",
                     "my.property": "myvalue"
                }
          }
     ]
}

I am able to read configuration for apple-service(Test Micro Service) using Spring config server.

Example application.yml of spring config application

spring:
    profiles:
        active: native
    cloud:
        config:
            server:
                native:
                    searchLocations: classpath:config/
server:
  port: 8888


endpoints:
    restart:
      enabled: true

Put your .properties or .yml files inside src\main\resources\config folder. Make sure name of this files should match spring.application.name of your micro service.

For example if spring.application.name=apple-service then property file should be apple-service.properties in src\main\resources\config folder.

Example bootstrap.yml of apple-service:

spring:
  application:
    name: apple-service

cloud:
  config:
    uri: http://localhost:8888

Using spring.profiles.active=native is that what Spring documentation seems to suggest, but I couldn't get it to work either. My application.properties file is

server.port=8888
spring.cloud.config.profiles=native 

but the response from the URL

http://localhost:8888/config-server/env

is

{"name":"env","label":"master","propertySources":[{"name":"https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples/config-repo/application.yml","source":{"info.url":"https://github.com/spring-cloud-samples","info.description":"Spring Cloud Samples"}}]}

which indicates that native profile was ignored and the server still considering github as property source.

A small additional problem I encountered is the config service default port. According to the Sprin Cloud Config documentation it should be 8888. If I remove server.port=8888 from my application.properties the config server starts on port 8080 which is default Spring Boot port, but not the one config server should use.