How to resolve the error “Unable to access jarfile ApacheJMeter.jar errorlevel=1” while initiating Jmeter?

Question

Download Jmeter and execute the batch file (Jmeter\\apache-jmeter-2.6\\bin\\jmeter.bat).
We get the error message in the console:

Unable to access jarfil         


        

Answer 1

This error could also happen because of version mismatch of jmeter and java. As jmeter versions supports different java versions as below.

Download the zip accordingly and you are good to go.