not able to launch confluence server

Question

i have set jdk variable path and jre , using jdk 1.8 but on executing start-confluence.bat command on cmd--> getting unable to access c:\program msg.

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin>start-confluence.bat

To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.bat /fg
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If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide
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"Using Java: C:\Users\HP\Downloads\jdk-17_windows-x64_bin\jdk-17.0.6\bin\java.exe"
Error: Unable to access jarfile C:\Program
Error: Unable to access jarfile C:\Program
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Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence"
Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence"
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence	emp"
Using JRE_HOME: "C:\Users\HP\Downloads\jdk-17_windows-x64_bin\jdk-17.0.6"
Using CLASSPATH: "C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin	omcat-juli.jar"
C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin>start-confluence.bat /fg
'findstr' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin>start-confluence.bat/fg
'findstr' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Sally Makhlouf · Answer

Hi , am facing same issue now. I was setting up node 2 by copying the directories from node 1. I run the command : startup.bat i got the same mentioned error :

error: Unable to access jarfile C:\Program

knowing that no changes have been made to any file and Confluence is working fine on node 1.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

There are two problems here.

First, your Windows installation is not able to correctly parse path names with spaces in it, and second, it looks like it can't find a part of the OS in the environment path (which may be being caused by the first problem)

Start with a look at the environment - what exactly is the "PATH" defined for the user trying to run the batch file?  And why can't it recognise spaces in a path?