Unable to get Neo4j to run

Question

I searched for an answer to this, but was unable to find anyone else having the same problem.

• This is the first time I've tried to use Neo4j.
• I'm running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.
• I downloaded and unzipped Neo4j Community 1.8.2 for Windows.
• In a command window, I switched to the bin folder and ran Neo4j.bat.
• I received the following message in the command window: Unable to locate jvm. Could not find HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment/CurrentVersion entry in windows registry.
• I verified that I have the latest JVM.
• I verified that the above registry key is not present in the location shown, but I did find it at HKLM\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment/CurrentVersion.

How should I proceed?

Thanks for any direction!

Answer 1

I Fixed this problem by making a new environment variable JAVA_HOME and pointing it to my Java installation folder

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin

Answer 2

Set the JAVA_HOME path in your environment variables.

Answer 3

I installed JRE version 6 on my machine and this cleared the problem. (I previously had version 7 on the machine.)

Answer 4

try to set up the java PATH variable to the correct path. tutorial here: http://java.com/en/download/help/path.xml

than, newest java are i think by 2 version newer than the original java for neo4j 1.8.2. a remind myself some problems with such versioning few months ago - i solved it by running neo4j in the newest versions of 1.9.0x