Having issues with making a forge server

[Aetheria]

So I was planning on making a 1.19.2 modded server for some friends of mine and I was following guides online, everything was working up until opening the run.bat file didn't work it just says "Error: Could not find or load main class @user_jvm_args.txt" there is a text file called "user_jvm_args" in the same folder as it, I didn't change anything about these files. Please help?

[ChampionAsh5357]

Can you verify the output when running `java --version` in a terminal?

[Aetheria]

Unrecognized option: --version
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

This what happens when I put 'java --version' in command prompt

 

[ChampionAsh5357]

Try `java -version` then. But judging by that response, you need to download Java 17 since you probably have Java 8 currently.

[Jontom Xire]

I will second Ash's post since that is EXACTLY the problem I had yesterday when trying to run a dedicated server for the first time.

You will need to download the JDK since the JRE is only available for Java 8. Apparently Sun/Oracle/whoever think you will only ever need Java 8 for everything.

 

[Aetheria]

Thanks! Installing java 17 made it work.