‘ant’ is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

I have the same issue as this user: ant - not recognized as an internal

however unfortunately none of the solutions have worked for me in that post or any other. I\

Answer 1

Need to see whether you got ant folder moved by mistake or unknowingly. It is set in environment variables.I resolved this once as mentioned below.

I removed ant folder by mistake and placed in another folder.I went to command prompt and typed "path". It has given me path as "F:\apache-ant-1.9.4\". So I moved the ant back to F drive and it resolved the issue.

Answer 2

Please follow these steps

1. In User Variables

   Set VARIABLE NAME=ANT_HOME VARIABLE PATH =C:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.9.7

2.Edit User Variable PATH = %ANT_HOME%\bin

3. Go to System Variables

   • Set Path =%ANT_HOME%\bin

Answer 3

ANT_HOME is not being resolved. Change %ANT_HOME%\bin in the Path system environment variable to c:\apache-ant\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin.