Elastic Search startup error - “\Common was unexpected at this time.”

Question

I have downloaded and extracted elasticsearch and when I run the batch file \"elasticsearch.bat\' I am getting the following error.

\"\\Common was unexpected at         


        

Answer 1

I also encountered the same issue while running the batch file "elasticsearch.bat" in windows 10. I set JAVA_HOME using below command and it worked for me.

set "JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\your_jdk_version"