Cassandra - "The system cannot find the file specified" - windows

Question

I have installed Cassandra on Windows 10, and now when I try to run it using "cassandra", I get the following error:
Any ideas?

Answer 1

After looking at the file it seems, powershell script cassandra-env.ps1 executes following function:
if (Test-Path Env:\JAVA_HOME)
{
$env:JAVA_BIN = "$env:JAVA_HOME\bin\java.exe"
}
elseif (Get-Command "java.exe")
{
$env:JAVA_BIN = "java.exe"
}
else
{
echo "ERROR! No JAVA_HOME set and could not find java.exe in the path."
exit
}
I'm not an expert on Cassandra stuff, but if I were you I would run this script and make sure $env:JAVA_BIN is set correctly, and from there I would follow its trail and check
ParseJVMInfo function in the conf\cassandra-env.ps1 file which is throwing error in your setup.
Update:
Check JAVA_HOME environment variable and see if it is setup such that [JAVA_HOME]\bin\java.exe exists.

Answer 2

Don't install Cassandra into directory where the name has space in it. Startup script for Windows has problems with such names.
Update after an additional investigation:
Looking more precisely into the code, it looks like it can't start Java with the given command-line switches: -d64 -version - either Java executable isn't in the PATH, or the -d64 switch isn't supported for your version of Java - for example, if you installed 32-bit version of Java. Please try to run the java -d64 -version from the command line to check that it works

Answer 3

In my case I updated my java version and added latest version in system environment and run this command as administrator in cassandra specieid path(C:\Program Files\apache-cassandra-3.11.6\bin).
cassandra.bat -f
its running perfactly!!
and also make sure You must allow the execution of PowerShell Scripts. for this check out this one
https://www.howtogeek.com/106273/how-to-allow-the-execution-of-powershell-scripts-on-windows-7/

Answer 4

actually , its not about the path ...
its about giving the proper access / privilege to the path you are trying to access , that's something have to do with UAC setting on windows , try minimize it and make sure you have the right access through clicking on folder properties and giving permission to your user or everyone to access this path read / change or full control .
so u don't have to uninstall anything :)