# Installing elastica on windows7

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elastica-on-windows7/8294>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elastica-on-windows7/8294 "2012-07-03T05:33:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ashaheen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@ashaheen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashaheen)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elastica-on-windows7/8294/1 "2012-07-03T05:33:24Z")

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hey  
Elasticsearch (Version: elasticsearch-0.19.7)PATH: D:\elasticsearch\bin\elasticsearch.bat;  
JAVA\_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin  
ELASTICA (Version: ruflin-Elastica-v0.19.3.0-79-g3d38efa): D:\xampp\htdocs\surch

i am using Windows7 set up the above mentioned variables in ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES  
but in command prompt am unable to run elasticsearch.bat file please help me in that.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![nhan248](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@nhan248](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nhan248)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elastica-on-windows7/8294/2 "2013-02-27T19:39:26Z")

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I had same error

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**Author:** ![AHoS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@AHoS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AHoS)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elastica-on-windows7/8294/3 "2013-02-28T05:18:32Z")

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are you sure that your JVM has been properly deployed? you could compile and run a java file with your JVM.if ES still doesn't work ,i suggest you run the bat file in the cmd window and check what's the error.  
P.S. es runs smmothly on my pc with win7 system.

hey Elasticsearch (Version: elasticsearch-0.19.7)PATH: D:\elasticsearch\bin\elasticsearch.bat; JAVA\_HOME: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin ELASTICA (Version: ruflin-Elastica-v0.19.3.0-79-g3d38efa): D:\xampp\htdocs\surch

i am using Windows7 set up the above mentioned variables in ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES  
but in command prompt am unable to run elasticsearch.bat file please help me in that.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elastica-on-windows7/8294/4 "2017-07-06T02:49:08Z")

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