Installing running elasticsearch on Windows 7 : Error in path

Question

I am trying to install elasticsearch on Windows7.

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/running-elasticsearch.html

I installed Java in following folder

C:\java

If not set JAVA_HOME and running elasticsearch, getting error that JAVA_HOME is not set.

Set JAVA_HOME to C:\java\bin

When try to run elasticsearch getting this error:

The system cannot find the path specified.

Answer 1

generally the common practice is as follows:

JAVA_HOME should be path to the root java directory, eg. JAVA_HOME=C:\java and in the PATH there should be %JAVA_HOME%\bin.