Elasticsearch installation : Error missing 'server' JVM at …jvm.dll

Question

After having downloaded elasticsearch and unzipped it following the steps in this link:

Install Elastic Search on Windows

I am receiving the following error:

Answer 1

I solved this by installing Java JRE 64-bit.

And then setting the environment variable JAVA_HOME to this version. (In my case C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_131)