OVERRIDE_PATHS and OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME properties
- Last Updated: February 11, 2026
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- OpenEdge
- Version 13.0
- Documentation
The configutil.properties file contains an
environment section that has OVERRIDE_PATHS and OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME
entries. By default, these are set to false.
While exporting a setting, the utility tries to ascertain if the value is a
valid path on the source machine or a value containing the hostname that matches
that of the source machine. If you set OVERRIDE_PATHS to false, then any value that contains valid path on
the source machine is not overwritten during import. Similarly, if you set OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME to false, then any value that contains
hostname matching that of source machine is not overwritten during import. (Note
that all values containing hostname do not qualify for OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME).
This behavior exists because path and host name of the source machine may not have any meaning on target machine. If you set these values to true, then the utility overwrites all the setting values during import irrespective of whether it is a path or a hostname.
If you do not want to export any specific files, then you can comment the entries for them in the configutil.properties file.