IntelliJ IDEA "The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK" IntelliJ IDEA "The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK" windows windows

IntelliJ IDEA "The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK"


Because you are choosing jre dir. and not JDK dir. JDK dir. is for instance (depending on update and whether it's 64 bit or 32 bit): C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_45In my case it's 32 bit JDK 1.7 update 45


This error occurs because if you choosing the path deep in JDK or JRE.The exact path that should be chosen is in my case 64 bit

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91

if 32 bit

C:\Program Files (86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_91


May be your jdk is in /usr/lib/jvm/. This variant for linux.