Installation Help - Not working - windows server 2012

[joeberg]

Hi Anyone have this problem and can help would be great.

Apache installed and good.
JDK installed and fine with Java -version check.

so the problem i'm having is of course when i run the Startup.bat file it keeps telling me that it needs to be pointing to a JDK not JRE.

the other problem i'm having is i'm going in the Settings where i can change the JAVA_HOME Variables, and no matter how many times i change it, stays the same way it was before in otherwords it is not accepting my changes,. I am Applying it etc.
let me be clear, when i go back in to edit the JAVA_HOME Variable the changes i made are there.
its in the system when i hit
Echo %JAVA_HOME% and that is where there are no changes.
there were some java exe files in the system32 folder which i deleted.


Please Help

[jbarrez]

I'm sorry but these are pretty basic Java questions, not related to Activiti.

so the problem i'm having is of course when i run the Startup.bat

I assume you means Apache Tomcat (regular Apache is a web server for html and php, etc)

the other problem i'm having is i'm going in the Settings where i can change the JAVA_HOME Variables

It's been a long time since I've been on windows, but do you change them in the settings -> environment variables?
If the JAVA_HOME isn't set correctly, Tomcat will indeed not boot up.