I am on windows 7 and I am trying to install play framework.
I created the environment variable in system variables with
variable name:
Muhammad is correct. The only thing I would add is this: After saving the environment variables, I noticed that one must:
and then I saw the play_home in the path and play worked everywhere. For some reason, updating the environment variables didn't refresh existing windows.
UPDATE:
If you're in a hurry and feeling rebellious, open a cmd prompt window first, then kill explorer.exe, then restart explorer.exe in the cmd window.
That should refresh everything but be careful...