updated documentation about the configuration

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Rodolphe Marques 2016-07-11 15:58:29 +02:00
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`BIGCHAINDB_STATSD_HOST`<br>
`BIGCHAINDB_STATSD_PORT`<br>
`BIGCHAINDB_STATSD_RATE`<br>
`BIGCHAINDB_CONFIG_PATH`<br>
The local config file is `$HOME/.bigchaindb` by default (a file which might not even exist), but you can tell BigchainDB to use a different file by using the `-c` command-line option, e.g. `bigchaindb -c path/to/config_file.json start`.
The local config file is `$HOME/.bigchaindb` by default (a file which might not even exist), but you can tell BigchainDB to use a different file by using the `-c` command-line option, e.g. `bigchaindb -c path/to/config_file.json start`
or using the `BIGCHAINDB_CONFIG_PATH` environment variable, e.g. `BIGHAINDB_CONFIG_PATH=.my_bigchaindb_config bigchaindb start`.
You can read the current default values in the file [bigchaindb/\_\_init\_\_.py](https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/blob/master/bigchaindb/__init__.py). (The link is to the latest version.)