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1) Open your Environment Variables:
Start Menu > Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables.

• Click on the New button, under the User Variables section.
• For Variable Name, enter JAVA_HOME

• For Variable Value, provide the Java path (for example: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-15.0.2).

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  If you are running 32-bit Windows, then the path is: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-15.0.2 Java jdk path "jdk-15.0.2" may be different on your system as it is dependent on the version you have installed.

  
  

• Click the OK button.

• In the System Variables section, scroll down to and select the Path variable.
• Click the Edit button at the bottom of the window. The image below is from Windows 7 or before ( For windows 10 and above the layout or the path is different
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• Use your mouse cursor and click inside the Variable Value box. 
  Using your keyboard's right-arrow or End key, move all the way to the far right of the current text in Variable Value.
• Add the following text onto the end of the existing Variable Value text: 
  - For Java path example:- ; 
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• When you click edit you will see the image similar to what is shown below below 
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• Following the numbering shown above click New, a newline will be added at the bottom. and the line below 
  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-15.0.2\bin - For Mysql server path example:- 

• ;Following the numbering shown above click New, another newline will be added at the bottom. and the line below 
  C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\bin
  
  

  There must be exactly one semi-colon between whatever is already in your PATH variable, and the new C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-15.0.2\bin – don't add a semi-colon if your previous PATH already ended with a semi-colon.

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  as it is dependent on the version you have installed.  But in this case stick to the stated pre-requisites at the beginning of this document Number 3 is optional, if you have other softwares that use different versions of java, that might conflict with this setup, it is best you move the java path all the way up above them see image below

  
  

• In case you have other softwares that use other java version its best to move the path by using the option of Move Up see image below
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• Once you are done click OK button 

4) Create the JAVA_OPTS variable: 

• a. Under the User Variables section, click the New... button again.
• b. For Variable Name, enter JAVA_OPTS
• c. For Variable Value, enter the system's memory size, for example: -Xms2048m -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m
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5) Create the CATALINA_HOME variable: 

• a. Under the User Variables section, click the New... button again.
• b. For Variable Name, enter CATALINA_HOME
• c. For Variable Value, enter this C:\tomcat
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