# OpenMRS Standalone 2.8.1 Application Startup Failed
**URL:** https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880
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**Created:** [August 1, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880 "2026-08-01T12:47:01Z")
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### Author:  [@dejene](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/dejene)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880/1 "2026-08-01T12:47:02Z")
Hi Community,
My name is Dejene. I am from Ethiopia and public health and Medical Informatics expert. For the last two days, I have been trying to install the laters version of OpenMRS, which is Oopenmrs-standalone-2.8.. However, OpenMRS Application Startup Failed, inspite of the fact, I tries several reinstallations of required applications as well as the openmrs ziped file. I used jdk-17.0.11\_windows-x64\_bin, apache-tomcat-9.0.120-windows-x64, and mysql-installer-community-8.0.46.0 all correctly installed without touching the initial configurations. All are working. I would kindly ask you assitance to go through the error messages and settle the issue. I am attacking important documents for you to make analysis.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Dejene
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### Author:  [@dkayiwa](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/dkayiwa)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 6:42pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880/2 "2026-08-01T18:42:42Z")
Can you instead use this one? [https://nightly.link/openmrs/openmrs-standalone/workflows/build-o3-standalone/openmrs-emr3/openmrs-standalone-o3.zip](https://nightly.link/openmrs/openmrs-standalone/workflows/build-o3-standalone/openmrs-emr3/openmrs-standalone-o3.zip)
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### Author:  [@dejene](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/dejene)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880/3 "2026-08-03T03:00:57Z")
Thank you, Daniel. The referenceapplication-standalone-3.7.1 has worked well. However, this time I have to use the command line “java -jar openmrs-standalone.jar”. I am not sure why double clicking does not work. I have two versions of Java (Java 8 and Java 17).
Thanks,
Sincerely,
Dejene.
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### Author:  [@dkayiwa](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/dkayiwa)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880/4 "2026-08-03T09:18:10Z")
Can you set Java 17 as your default and then try again to double click?
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### Author:  [@dejene](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/dejene)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2026, 7:50am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-standalone-2-8-1-application-startup-failed/49880/5 "2026-08-04T07:50:31Z")
Thank you Daniel.