Where is my runtime.properties file on Windows 10?

hossam · October 31, 2015, 9:28pm

Platform Version: Platform 1.11.4 WAR (for Enterprise)

Question: I deployed the WAR file and during installation of OpenMRS it says that it can’t find my runtime properties file. in the “Troubleshooting Installation” Wiki page it says the runtime properties file should be in this directory: Under C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\OpenMRS I opened the Roaming folder and there is no OpenMRS folder and obviously no runtime properties file. What do I do? Thanks. P.s: I’m using windows 10

sunbiz · October 31, 2015, 9:33pm

@hossam, this bug was recently committed to the master, but I don’t think has been backported. See issue:

Not sure, why though. @dkayiwa any reason not to backport this?

hossam · October 31, 2015, 9:38pm

Does that mean that for now, If I switch to windows 7, the problem will be fixed?

dkayiwa · October 31, 2015, 9:55pm

Thanks @sunbiz for the reminder. I have back ported it to 1.11.x and 1.12.x

sunbiz · October 31, 2015, 9:57pm

Its a 1-line fix, so may be you can do that yourself and build. or you can set an environment variable with name = OPENMRS_APPLICATION_DATA_DIRECTORY with its value = directory where you want the folder like C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\OpenMRS

then remember to do a system restart, if you created a system env var. If you create a user env var, just restarting tomcat will find the folder/create the folder with the installation able to create runtime properties file

hossam · October 31, 2015, 10:14pm

I appreciate that you think I can do that but I just knew OpenMRS existed 3 weeks ago and after that I knew MySQL and Tomcat existed then I had to learn some HTML language and database essentials from scratch.

I’m really sorry. I wish I could do it myself but I’m very overwhelmed as is.

sunbiz · November 1, 2015, 12:18am

Did you try the environment variable?

hossam · November 1, 2015, 1:06am

no I don’t know what that is

dkayiwa · November 1, 2015, 8:59am

Did you try out the standalone version? https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+Standalone

hossam · November 1, 2015, 2:25pm

yes I did…I’ve been meaning to upgrade to enterprise to see how it’s gonna go when I implement OpenMRS in my facility

hossam · November 13, 2015, 8:29pm

would you please kindly help me do that? hw do I set an environment variable?

What is the next step??

michael · November 13, 2015, 8:44pm

Google suggests:

jkemboi · May 3, 2016, 8:04am

I also tried Platform 1.9.10 war file. Deployed on tomcat 7 and i also got the same problems. Worked on Environment variables as suggested and restarted tomcat but no success. OpenMRS folder is not being created on AppData folder.

My Installation summary:

Windows 10, 64bit machine
Java 6 (Jre)
Tomcat 7
MySQL 5.1.45
Platform 1.9.10 war file.

mpmysight · May 3, 2016, 8:19am

What error and at what stage are you getting the error @jkemboi?

jkemboi · May 3, 2016, 8:22am

mpmysight · May 3, 2016, 8:32am

The installation is running on a former created “openmrs-runtime.properties” file open this link… C:\Application Data\OpenMRS Replace C: with the Local Disk Drive you are using. then delete the existing file

hossam · May 3, 2016, 12:57pm

try those versions: Tomcat 6.0.29 MySQL 5.5.46 JDK 6 I run openmrs on windows 10 as well and it works

engr.riyad · March 24, 2020, 6:26am

@sunbiz I tried with environment variable (windows 10) . But not work.

jwnasambu · March 24, 2020, 6:37am

Openmrs runs on this versions jdk 1.8., msql 5.7 and Tom cat 8. To access your run time properties
On Windows systems:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\Application Data\OpenMRS
C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Application Data\OpenMRS

On Mac OS X or Linux systems:

~/YOURUSERNAME/.OpenMRS
/usr/share/tomcatX/.OpenMRS