How do I resolve... JBOSS_HOME may be pointing to a different location - unpredictable results may occur

[gmjord]

Hello,

I am new to JBoss (and Java) and can't get it to run.  I type standalone.bat in the bin directory where JBoss is located and get JBOSS_HOME may be pointing to a different location - unpredictable results may occur.

I have tried deleting the JBOSS_HOME variable as some suggested but to no avail.

I have my JBOSS_HOME set to C:\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final and JAVA_HOME set to C:\Java\jdk1.7.0_25.  These paths are also in my Path environment variable.

Please help me!  

[wdfink]

Hello Mitch,

welcome to the forum.

You might look for the JBOSS_HOME variable in the Environment dialog (somewhere in the system dialog) and delete it here.

Before you execute standalone.bat, does set shows that JBOSS_HOME is set?

[gmjord]

I checked my environment variables and there was a difference between what the control panel told me and what the "set" command at the prompt told me which I don't know why.  I changed JBOSS_HOME to C:\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final (without \bin) with the "set" command and I no longer get the JBOSS_HOME may be pointing to a different location - unpredictable results may occur.

Now, I get...           calling "C:\jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\bin\standalone.conf.bat"    for a couple of seconds then the command prompt comes back.

Is this normal?  Is JBoss running at this point?

I typed http:/localhost:8080/ into my browser and get an error that could not connect to the server.

What else do I need to do?

Thank you,

Mitch

[jaikiran]

1) Do not  set JBOSS_HOME. It will be set by the startup scripts themselves.

2) Do set JAVA_HOME to point to the location where you have installed Java.

What's the output of

echo %JAVA_HOME%

[wdfink]

If you look to the standalone.bat file there is a "@echo off" if you change that to "@echo on" you see the output of the script and this might give you an idea whats going wrong.

If you are unsure you might attach it here.

[gmjord]

When I type echo %JAVA_HOME% it returns C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25 which is where I did have Java before I moved it.  Again the issue was with changing JAVA_HOME in the control panel.  So even though I changed JAVA_HOME in the control panel I still see the old location for JAVA_HOME with "echo" or "set".

So, I changed JAVA_HOME with the "set" command and now my server starts!!  And... I see that my browser tells me that my JBoss is running when I put in localhost:8080.

Thank you Jaikiran and thank you Wolf!!