• Go to My Computer, right click and select Properties.

• Click the Advanced tab. Then click to open Environment Variables. In this next step, we'll be setting system variables, make sure you aren't creating user variables.

• Set up JAVA_HOME environment variable. 
  • This should be the directory/folder where the JDK is installed.   First, locate where you have the JDK installed. In my example, my JDK was located here: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21 (Screenshot below shows location of my JDK)

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  • Under System variables, click New to set up a new variable.  In variable name, enter JAVA_HOME  For Variable value, enter or copy and paste the location of the JDK - in my example - C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21 (this will be unique to wherever you installed the JDK).

• Set the JAVA environment variable.
  • Alternatively this can be done by editing the existing Path variable.
  • Edit the path variable and copy and past the following at the end of the existing value: ; %JAVA_HOME%\bin;
• Set up the JETTY_HOME environment variable (this step can be bypassed if using the executable WAR)
  • This time, it should be the directory/folder where Jetty is installed (in my example, this is the Mifos Install folder where I previously unzipped it to). The location for my example was C:\MifosInstall\jetty-distribution-7.3.1.v20110307\jetty-distribution-7.3.1.v20110307 Once again this will be unique to your instance. 

• • Still under System variables, click New to set up another new variable.  In Variable name, enter JETTY_HOME For Variable value enter the location of your Jetty.  In my example, C:\MifosInstall\jetty-distribution-7.3.1.v20110307\jetty-distribution-7.3.1.v20110307 (ONCE AGAIN - THIS WILL BE UNIQUE TO YOUR INSTANCE)

• Set up JAVA_OPTIONS.
  • Click New. For Variable name, enter: JAVA_OPTIONS For Variable value, enter or copy and paste the following (make sure to include the initial hyphen):  -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

• Set up JETTY options
  • Navigate to your JETTY_HOME directory.
  • Double-click and run the start.ini file and open it in notepad.

   

  

  • Enter the following lines at the end of the text:

     --exec
     -Xmx512m
     -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

• Set up MIFOS_CONF.

  • Since we customized our local.properties file, we need to set up a system variable for MIFOS_CONF so Mifos knows which directory in which to locate the custom local.properties file.

  • In my case, this directory is: C:\Mifos_Install\mifos-v1.6.1\mifos-v1.6.1\config  This will be unique to your installation and where you've placed your folders. 

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  • Click New. For variable name, enter: MIFOS_CONF For Variable value, enter the location of your config folder; in my example: C:\Mifos_Install\mifos-v1.6.1\mifos-v1.6.1\config

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• Click OK to save and apply the changes.

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