IntelliJ IDEA “The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK”

Question

I just installed IntelliJ IDEA and I\'m trying to set it up. I\'ve gotten to the part where I need to select my home directory for my JDK.

I tried navigating to my J

Answer 1

It got this error because I had managed to clobber jdk1.8.0_60 with the jre!

Answer 2

For Windows, apparently the JDK has to be under C:\Program Files.

This does not work:

C:\dev\Java\jdk1.8.0_191     

This works:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191     

(I'm using IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2018.2.4.)

Answer 3

for me ,with JDK11 and IntelliJ 2016.3 , I kept getting the same message so I decided to uninstall JDK11 and installed JDK8 instead and it immediately worked!

Answer 4

In case you missed the configuration at the Project Structure(File -> Project Structure), just reconfigure it like below:

For Java

For Android

Enjoy coding J

Answer 5

I had \bin as part of the path. Up one level of the selected directory worked for me.

Answer 6

I had the same issue. But I figured it out by choosing this path:

First at all, you need to select the C:\ folder. Then, you select Program Files. After it, you select java, and finally the jdk you downloaded. In my case, I downloaded the JDK1.8.0_60 version.

To resume the path:

C:\Program Files\java\jdk1.8.0_60

After you are done with it, you can click on the button next. Then you select the create project from templates. This will create a java application with a main() method. After it, you click next to create the name of you project.

I hope this helps you.