Can't Run Activator Template projects Activator UI Failed to load SBT configuration

Question

I am new to Play Framework and Scala and this amazing tool activator.

I am unable to run template projects that run play framework (eg: hello-play-scala) but able to

Answer 1

I was having the same problem on Windows 8.1, and after googling for a solution, I initially tried to update some of my plugins. (It turned out that only sbt-less was a bit out of date.) However, that did not resolve the matter.

So, I found a couple of Web pages that mentioned the same problem, and it seemed that folks who adjusted the number of forward slashes in their ~/.sbt/repositories file (C:/Users/<username>/.sbt/repositories file on Windows) were able to resolve the matter that way. So, I changed both of the file://// patterns in my ~/.sbt/repositories file to file:///.

Then I stopped my activator, killed all of the lingering instances of Java that it had spawned, deleted my <project_directory>/RUNNING_PID file and restarted activator. Now, things seem to be working.

FYI, here are the two most helpful pages that I found regarding the problem:

• Activator UI: Failed to load sbt configuration (Windows)
• Cannot create new play-scala project, failed to load SBT configuration File