Corda plugins and base-directory configuration

Question

I've setup a 4 node corda network with Notary, NodeA, NodeB and NodeC. When I bring up node and webserver instances for individual nodes, network comes up healthy. But,

1) I want to keep the configs under /etc/node.conf and runtime environment under /opt/corda directories for each of the nodes. When I provide --config-file and --base-directory arguments, per documentation, corda refuses to run with both arguments as inputs. Is there a way to isolate runtime environments and configs?

2) How do I make the nodes pick up the jars under plugins ? I've created a plugins directory for each of these nodes under basedirectory path - /opt/corda/plugins. But, created it's own plugins directory. (Albeit, in my current setup I have a node.conf file under /opt/corda/ to keep it going). Where must I deploy my cordapps if corda is not picking up from the plugins folder I've created? Am I missing something here ? I've followed the docs during my setup.

Answer 1

1) As you observed, using the --config-file and --base-directory command line arguments together is currently disallowed.

However, you can store your node.conf file in a separate location by creating a symlink in the root of the node folder that points to the actual location of the node.conf file (e.g. ln -s ./conf/node.conf ./node.conf on Mac if you are storing the node.conf file in a conf folder in the node's root directory).

2) Awaiting clarification.