I recently installed OFBiz on my Windows 10 system and made notes how I did
it, so I can repeat it on a different machine if necessary. Hope this helps.
Install OFBiz on Microsoft Windows 10
1. Uninstall Java Runtime to get JDK and JRE to the same version
2. Download Java SE JDK
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-glance.html
Use the Java SE 8u261 version. Register with Oracle to be able to download
that version.
3. Run the downloaded file and install the Java JDK and JRE. Do not modify
the default file paths.
4. Download the OFBiz ZIP archive
https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html
5. Unpack the directory apache-ofbiz-17.12.04 in the zip file.
You can rename this directory to e.g. c:\ofbiz
6. Set the environment variables
control panel – extended system settings – environment variables, new
JAVA_HOME variable
JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2
test the setting of this variable in the command window:
C:\Users\Potthast>echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2
Add paths to system path variable:
control panel – extended system settings – environment variables, existing
path variable
%JAVA_HOME% (=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2)
%JAVA_HOME\bin%
close these windows again to get Windows to enable these
7. Test the path variable
open new command window
enter java
enter javac
if these output a lot of explanations, your are ok
8. Test OFBiz
Open the INSTALL file and follow the instructions in there
open a command window in administrator mode
for that right-click on the start button, open search, enter cmd and execute
as administrator
get into the ofbiz directory you created, e.g. c:\ofbiz
enter:
init-gradle-wrapper (=init-gradle-wrapper.bat)
and then enter:
gradlew cleanAll loadAll (=gradlew.bat cleanAll loadAll)
allow this script to download files when queried by Windows
Finally start OFBiz by entering: gradlew ofbiz
You can make a startofbiz.bat file with this command and generate a link to
that from your desktop to restart it conveniantly.
OFBiz will compile and start. When the message OFBiz is started and ready
appears, followed by several further messages, it will stop with the prompt
:ofbiz. Then open a browser window and enter https://localhost:8443/webtools
(or ecommerce, or catalog)
The default login is admin, password ofbiz
9. Stopping OFBiz
You may use Ctrl+C in the terminal were you started OFBiz.
The „official“ way, which takes way longer, is to open another terminal and
navigate to the ofbiz directory. In there enter gradlew „ofbiz --shutdown“
