i followed this tutorial here to create a forge 1.12.2 server, but i can't get the server to start/mod folder to appear.
the following error comes up when i click the run.bat:
C:\Users\onlin\OneDrive\Desktop\forge server>java -Xmx2048M -Xms2048M -jar forge.jar nogui
A problem occurred running the Server launcher.java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
at net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.ServerLaunchWrapper.run(ServerLaunchWrapper.java:70)
at net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.ServerLaunchWrapper.main(ServerLaunchWrapper.java:34)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: class jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to class java.net.URLClassLoader (jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader and java.net.URLClassLoader are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.<init>(Launch.java:34)
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)
... 6 more
i checked comments and people were saying you can't have multiple java versions installed, but people were also saying you can get it to choose which java version.
so i tried editing the run.bat again with the path to the java 8
"C:\Users\onlin\Downloads\jre-8u351-windows-x64.exe" -Xmx2048M -Xms2048M -jar forge.jar nogui
pause
but when i run it i keep getting this error from java:
"Unable to install java
There are errors in the following switches:
"-Xmx2048M";"-Xms2048M";"-jar";"forge.jar";"nogui";.
Check that the commands are valid and try again."
how can i fix this without uninstalling my other java versions? and also make the mod folder appear.