Problem

You make changes to the crowd.properties configuration file, but even after restarting Crowd the new attributes do not take place.

Cause

There are several crowd.properties files located in the Crowd installation directory: 

• ./client/conf/crowd.properties
• ./crowd-openidserver-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/crowd.properties
• ./demo-src/crowd.properties
• ./demo-webapp/crowd.properties
• ./demo-webapp/WEB-INF/classes/crowd.properties
• ./etc/crowd.properties

This can cause confusion since those other files are used for different aspects of Crowd.

Resolution

• Make the changes to the proper crowd.properties file; specifically the one located on the root of the Crowd home directory, as explained here: Important Directories and Files