JRE home environment variable

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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Hello,
I just downloaded the Community version .zip from the Camunda website. Extracted it and then started up the start-camunda.bat file. It launches but I get the error: “The JRE_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly” message in a command prompt window.

I have verified that the Environment variables are exactly what they need to be for Windows 7 64 bit: C:\Progra~2\Java\jre1.8.0_211

Additionally, the apache log folder has no log files.

The site can’t be reached.
I am not sure what I may be missing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
J.

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@jmalik refer this post,it might be helpful for your issue. Instead of jre try referring to jdk path.

Windows Installation fails

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@aravindhrs

I knew about that possible fix but that did not fix it because my Java folder is name ‘JRE’ in Windows 7… If I change the path, it is not going to find the folder. I tried changing the path anyways for kicks, obviously didn’t work.

Does anyone else have any other ideas?

It’s a clean install. It used to work on this system and then this test system was moved from outside the firewall to within the firewall so I could test it in production. Since the move, it has stopped working.

Thanks.
J.

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image Here’s the error. The system is Windows Pro 7 64bit.

The JRE path… C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_221 which translates to C:\Progra~2\Java\jre1.8.0_211 within the Environment variables. image

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  1. First check whether you configured JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME properly by launching the command prompt.
  2. For example, if you like to use JRE_HOME in windows, type SET JRE_HOME, it will display the path where JRE is available.
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  3. Launch the Camunda Server,another command prompt will be launched.
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  4. Welcome page will be displayed.
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Camunda finally launched and is working. The issue I realized was there were two Java folders. One in \Program Files\ and the other in \Progra~2\ and the environment variable was pointing to the \Progra~2\ instance while it was looking for the other instance.
Anyways, after re-pointing the environment variable to the other Java folder fixed the issue.

A quick search on the web yielded that this is how Java is installed because diff. programs look for Java in one of those two different places. So Beware!

I really appreciate everyone’s input for assistance.
Thank you!
J.