#Support original file name even if it is a symbolic link [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43584510/conf-file-for-spring-boot-application](config file) this is needed if your systemd or init.d is pointing to a symbolic link file instead of the original fat jar

Author: shahbour

spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-loader-tools/src/main/resources/org/springframework/boot/loader/tools/launch.script

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ WORKING_DIR="$(pwd)"
 # Follow symlinks to find the real jar and detect init.d script
 cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit 1
 [[ -z "$jarfile" ]] && jarfile=$(pwd)/$(basename "$0")
+originalconfigfile="$(basename "${jarfile%.*}.conf")"
 while [[ -L "$jarfile" ]]; do
   [[ "$jarfile" =~ init\.d ]] && init_script=$(basename "$jarfile")
   jarfile=$(readlink "$jarfile")
@@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ configfile="$(basename "${jarfile%.*}.conf")"
 [[ -z "$CONF_FOLDER" ]] && CONF_FOLDER="{{confFolder:${jarfolder}}}"
 
 # shellcheck source=/dev/null
-[[ -r "${CONF_FOLDER}/${configfile}" ]] && source "${CONF_FOLDER}/${configfile}"
+[[ -r "${CONF_FOLDER}/${originalconfigfile}" ]] && source "${CONF_FOLDER}/${originalconfigfile}"
+[[ ! -r "${CONF_FOLDER}/${originalconfigfile}" ]] && [[ -r "${CONF_FOLDER}/${configfile}" ]] && source "${CONF_FOLDER}/${configfile}"
 
 # Initialize PID/LOG locations if they weren't provided by the config file
 [[ -z "$PID_FOLDER" ]] && PID_FOLDER="{{pidFolder:/var/run}}"