Environment Variables

Xray provides the following environment variables for modifying some of its underlying configurations.

Xray Asset Location

  • Name：xray.location.asset or XRAY_LOCATION_ASSET。
  • Default value：specified FHSopen in new tag directory or the same path as the Xray file.

This environment variable specifies a folder location that should contain the geoip.dat and geosite.dat files. If no variable value is specified, the program will search for resource files in the following order:

./
/usr/local/share/xray
/usr/share/xray

Configuration File Location

  • Name：xray.location.config or XRAY_LOCATION_CONFIG。
  • Default value: Same path as the Xray file.

This environment variable specifies a folder location that should contain the config.json file.

Multiple Configuration Directories

  • Name：xray.location.confdir or XRAY_LOCATION_CONFDIR。
  • Default value：""。

The .json files in this directory will be read in alphabetical order by filename and used as options for multiple configurations.