JRE_HOME variable missing with Tomcat (win7)

Question

I installed tomcat and Apache http-servers like two weeks ago. I got it running and I was able to run the JSP-pages from another computers. I had a little pause and now that

Answer 1

windows 7. tomcat 8 I was having the same problem. I was getting the ire_environment error. I applied HimalayanCoder's solution. To my surprise, the echo failed to see the java_home or the ire_home. I checked both paths and settings in enviro and both were correct. I rebooted my machine 5 times, and the echo for the java_home worked, but the ire_home still was not showing. tomcat is still not working and I am still getting jre_home error. I kept rebooting machine and after an addition 5 reboots, the jre_home path came through. my tomcat now works.

thanks HimalayanCoder.