Where is neo4j-server.properties on Windows? - neo4j

On Windows, where is neo4j-server.properties as described in this documentation?
http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/security-server.html
I can't find it anywhere, and creating it myself in places that seem reasonable have no effect.
I'd like to be able to access the server from a remote IP other than localhost. Thanks.
Update
Neo4j is installed at C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-community.exe
I've created the file at C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\conf\neo4j-server.properties
Here's the complete contents:
org.neo4j.server.webserver.port=7474
#allow any client to connect
org.neo4j.server.webserver.address=0.0.0.0
However, the settings don't seem to take effect. Am I missing something?

From the Neo4j startup window, click the "options" button bottom left.
This shows an options windows which includes the path to your conf file:

Ok I think I know what's going on: You installed 1.9.4 stable via the new simplified Windows Installer? If so: That seems to be a very limited 'dev' installer. It has a simple MSI, it has a simple GUI to let you select the database, and then you do everything from the web console. This is a departure from previous methods of installing on Windows. I tried it out, and I abandoned it because I need full control of the configuration. The conf files, normally found in a conf folder parallel to the bin folder, are not installed with this installer.
If you want the traditional installer, grab the enterprise download.
That said: I wouldn't waste time on the 1.9.x branch unless you're running in production. If you're still in dev/test, I'd go straight to 2.0 (milestone 6 is now available). You'll get Labels (reason enough to switch), updated Cypher engine, and lots of other improvements. Also: the 2.0 installer is still a traditional configuration, complete with conf folder, where you can make all the configuration changes you need to make.
EDIT The download link for the zip version is now back, so you can choose either the exe or zip version of installation. This means you can install 1.9.4 just like before, and have full access to all the configuration files.
EDIT 2 After a bit of email exchange w/someone at Neo Technology, I found out that, for this particular installer, everything needed is bundled into a single JAR file. if you look in the bin folder after installing, you'll see these files:
If you search the JAR file (via 7zip or something similar), you'll find the default server configuration file:
I suspect you could place the neo4j-server.properties file into the JAR file here as well (though I haven't tried).

The original poster is using the Community version on Windows, as am I. Despite what anyone has said, no one has actually answered the question with verifiable, tested results. I originally said, "This is not an answer". However, I now tend to think it IS the answer, just not the desired result. The answer is, to the best of my knowledge, with my specific tests and results documented below: NOWHERE: YOU CAN'T CONFIGURE current stable 1.9.4 or milestone 2.0.0-M06 Community versions on Windows x64.
I have tried the suggestions under the best answer, which were untested and unverified, and they do not work. See specific quotations below.
Neither of the currently pushed 2.0.0-M06 or stable 1.9.4 Community versions are configurable in any way, shape or form on Windows -- given the current documentation and non-answers. As a first time user to Neo4j with these two versions, this has been very frustrating, to have no clear way to configure the software, and incorrect official documentation.
"Also: the 2.0 installer is still a traditional configuration, complete with conf folder, where you can make all the configuration changes you need to make." #David Makagon
This is a false statement. It is the same as 1.9.4, no conf folders anywhere on disk.
"I suspect you could place the neo4j-server.properties file into the JAR file here as well (though I haven't tried)." #David Makagon
I have tried both Neo4j Community 1.9.4 and 2.0.0-M06 x64 on Windows 7 x64, running as a user, with and without running as administrator.
I've used ProcMon and could not even find any attempt to read any "conf" file at documented location. However, I found other odd locations with a "config" in the name, and have tried there also, out of morbid curiosity, included below.
Summary of config file locations which DO NOT work:
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\conf\neo4j-default.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\conf\neo4j-server.properties [1.9.4, 2.0.0-M06]
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-community.exe.Config [1.9.4]
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-default.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-server.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\conf\neo4j-server.properties [2.0.0-M06]
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-desktop-1.9.4.jar\org\neo4j\server\config\community\neo4j-default.properties
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-desktop-1.9.4.jar\org\neo4j\server\config\community\neo4j-server.properties
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-desktop-1.9.4\org\neo4j\server\config\community\neo4j-default.properties
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-desktop-1.9.4\org\neo4j\server\config\community\neo4j-server.properties
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\neo4j-default.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\neo4j-server.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\conf\neo4j-default.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\conf\neo4j-server.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\default.graphdb\neo4j.properties [1.9.4, 2.0.0-M06]
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\default.graphdb\neo4j-server.properties [1.9.4]
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\default.graphdb\conf\neo4j-server.properties [1.9.4]
Also note, the jar's config file
C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\bin\neo4j-desktop-1.9.4.jar\org\neo4j\server\config\community\neo4j-default.properties
corresponds directly to (exact same file, no differences)
C:\Users\root\Documents\Neo4j\default.graphdb\neo4j.properties
Yet changing the port in this location also does nothing.
Is there a way to configure this through the webadmin? It is definitely not clear at all.

I'm using the Windows 32 community version 2.0.3. To edit any of the properties, there's "settings" button in the GUI (where you start the database from)?

Download the windows community binary 64bit .zip from 'Other Versions'. You'll need to install the JDK 7 and set the JAVA_HOME path variable. All folders, including Conf, are exposed and you can control the the default port and localhost bindings per documentation.

A bit late, but I spent a while on searching for it today.
The seo4j-server.properties file is at (absolute path example):
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Neo4j Community\neo4j-server.properties
It is accessible from Neo4j GUI - under the "Setting" button. I have tried it with Community version 2.1.6 and it works fine.

Under ...\<neo4j-community-1.8.2>\conf directory.

The conf file is created under AppData\Roaming\Neo4j Community Edition when you click on edit in server configuration (Options GUI)

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What is the location of the configuration file in Neo4J 3.2?

I just installed Neo4j 3.2.6 on Windows. I am trying to run apoc.load.json. I have moved the plugins folded. They really need to sort this out.
I run it and I'm getting this error:
Failed to invoke procedure apoc.load.json: Caused by:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Import from files not enabled, please set
apoc.import.file.enabled=true in your neo4j.conf
only one problem, there is no neo4j.conf.
Database starts fine. I can run other statement, just not APOC procedures.
Any ideas?
You can take a look in the Neo4j file location docs. According to these docs the neo4j.conf file location in Windows installations is:
<neo4j-home>\conf\neo4j.conf for zip installations
%APPDATA%\Neo4j Community Edition\neo4j.conf for desktop installation (installer)
For Neo4j Desktop:
C:\Users{user}\AppData\Roaming\Neo4j
Desktop\Application\neo4jDatabases\database-{YOUR DATABASE HERE}\installation-{version}\plugins
For Neo4j Desktop,
Click pull down menu of your project
Click "Open Folder" menu
Click "Configuration"
Then new window of explorer will be opened with the path with neo4j.conf file included, for example:
C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Neo4j\Relate\Data\dbmss\dbms-3a5f5b9b-77b4-48cf-96f4-43aa81cce24b\conf\
If you are not able to find in other directions, you can try searching in the below path where I found my configuration located:
C:\Users\{user}\.Neo4jDesktop\neo4jDatabases\database-{YOUR DATABASE
HERE}\installation-{version}\conf
Hope it helps.
Even though the Neo4j documentation says that for windows desktop neo4j.conf file location is
%APPDATA%\Neo4j Community Edition\neo4j.conf, I couldn't find the file at that particular location.
I found the neo4j.conf file at below location :
{YOUR_NEO4J_DB_DIRECTORY}\neo4jDatabases\database-{SOME_VERSION_STRING}\installation-{YOUR_NEO4J_VERSION}\conf
Hope it helps someone!

dxgettext and Windows 10

Has anyone got dxgettext running under Windows 10?
I installed dxgettext from the offical homepage under Windows 10, which worked fine.
But whenever I try to run some of the installed tools (e.g. msgfmt.exe), they don't really run, but call themselves again, generating thousands of processes and making the system crawl.
This is what happens:
I call msgfmt --help
the executable msgfmt hangs, blocking the command window
in the TaskManager I see houndreds of msgfmt.exe processes popping up
I think, I have to replace the gettext tools of the dxgettext package with some newer version but before trying to figure it out I first wanted to ask if someone else experienced similar problems and found a working solution.
My questions:
Has anyone got the tools coming with dxgettext running under Windows 10?
What steps have been necessary to get it to run?
I resolved the problem in the following way:
I downloaded https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/releases/download/v0.19.8.1-v1.14/gettext0.19.8.1-iconv1.14-static-32.zip from https://mlocati.github.io/articles/gettext-iconv-windows.html
I replaced the following files from the installation directory of dxgettext with files from the zip archive:
msgattrib.exe
msgcat.exe
msgcmp.exe
msgcomm.exe
msgconv.exe
msgen.exe
msgexec.exe
msgfilter.exe
msgfmt.exe
msggrep.exe
msginit.exe
msgmerge.exe
msgunfmt.exe
msguniq.exe
xgettext.exe
Result:
Dxgettext and the tools, I use, seem to work fine. I found no problems with my workflow so far, with one exception:
If I use assemble to embed mo-files into an exe compiled with JvGnugettext.pas, I get the following error:
Pach code “6637DB2E-62E1-4A60-AC19-C23867046A89” was not found in .exe file. Are you sure the .exe file has been compiled with the correct libraries?
This may not be related to the original problem. However, it is resolved by replacing the original assemble.exe with the version from https://sourceforge.net/p/dzlib/code/HEAD/tree/buildtools/trunk/ (see answer by #dummzeuch).
The installer on the official home page is pretty old. Last time I looked it contained several outdated dlls and executables from the original gnugettext project that did not work correctly under recent Windows versions. You could take those from my buildtools repository on OSDN. These work for me. No guarantee that they work for you though.
https://osdn.net/projects/dzlib-tools/scm/svn/tree/head/buildtools/trunk/
I've been having these issues too with dxgettext 1.22, in Windows 10 1607. I changed some DLLs at first but kept having the bash.exe looping and hogging my PC to death.
So what I did was basically install latest Cygwin 32bit and replaced the appropiate DLLs. I kept the ones for gettext. Instructions:
Download and fresh install dxgettext-1.2.2.exe from http://dxgettext.po.dk/download as admin. Restart.
Download Cygwin 32bit from https://cygwin.com/install.html in a different folder from dxgettext (I took the default, c:\cygwin)
Run setup-x86.exe and select "Base" Package (Install). Next, Select Required packages just in case.
Move the following files from dxgettext folder to a backup folder (we'll use some DLL later):
cyg*.dll
bash.exe
Copy from c:\cygwin to the dxgettext folder the following files:
bash.exe (set to run as admin)
cygwin1.dll
cygiconv-2.dll
cygintl-8.dll
cygreadline7.dll
cyggcc_s-1.dll
cygncursesw-10.dll
Recover the file(s) below from the backup folder (See #4) and copy to the dxgettext folder.
cyggettextsrc-0-14-1.dll
cyggettextlib-0-14-1.dll
cygintl-3.dll
Running like this, you might get error 740 (requires elevation). So: Set ggmerge.exe,ggfmt.exe to run as admin
** EDIT** Found online this very interesting link, from a programmer who offers a free backup written in Delphi. The good thing is he adapted the dxgettext tools to run in Windows 10. This helped me a lot.
http://personal-backup.rathlev-home.de/translate.html

What is the location of the configuration file in Neo4J 3.0?

I have recently installed Neo4j 3.0, and since I need to enable outside access, I need the configuration file, and where in the 2.3.3 the configuration files were located in within the /var/lib/neo4j/ structure.
I am not able to locate them anywhere in the 3.0 version. I know it have changed name to neo4j.conf.
My folder structure in the above directory is:
plugins
import
data
certificates
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
I have tried the documentation. However, that doesn't describe the location. I also already tried "find -name "neo4j.conf" without luck.
[UPDATED]
According to the 3.0.0 Operations Manual, the default location of the config file for "Debian" is:
/etc/neo4j/neo4j.conf

Neo4j 1.9.4 Windows Installer- where did the shell go?

When you install 1.9.4 using the new Windows installer, from where does one launch the Neo4j-Shell (previously found in bin)?
The neo4j-shell isn't currently shipping with the neo4j desktop but you can launch it by running the following command from 'C:\Program Files\Neo4j Community\' (or equivalent location:):
jre\bin\java -classpath bin\neo4j-desktop-1.9.4.jar org.neo4j.shell.StartClient
I'm not sure whether there are plans to include it in the next release, I'll check.
You can uninstall your neo4j windowns instalation version, so you can download an zip file with contains the neo4j binary version for Windows at http://www.neo4j.org/download. Using this version, you can find the bin, conf and lib folder. Besides that, you can find the Neo4jShell.bat. This file is the shell.
I believe the stand alone Neo4j-Shell isn't included in the installer for 1.9.4, but there is the Power tool console in the web interface, and you can also use the shell from the 1.8.3 package. I have no idea if it's supported though, but it seems to work.
For future googlers who end up here, there is a cypher shell at <neo4_dir>\bin\cypher-shell.bat. Neo4j-CE-3.1.0

Windows x64 RabbitMQ install error with Erlang environment var (ERLANG_HOME)

I'm ask/answering this question because it hung me up & it's likely someone else will have the same problem.
Install of RabbitMQ x64 v2.8.6 on Windows Server 2008 x64.
After Erlang install using default install location to C:\Program Files\erl5.9.2, I'm attempting to start the server via running the rabbitmq-service.bat. Fail:
Please either set ERLANG_HOME to point to your Erlang installation
or place the RabbitMQ server distribution in the Erlang lib folder.
Problem is the .bat file does not have the correct subpath. with 5.9.2 (R15B02) version of erlang. My ERLANG_HOME directory is set correctly, but the script does not use it correctly for this version of Erlang, which, it appears to this Erlang noob to have a new subdirectory called "erts-5.9.2" which is causing the problems. Maybe someone intimate with these scripts can describe how to make this work correctly without the hack workaround I'm about to describe?
1- Set environment variable:
Variable name : ERLANG_HOME
Variable value: C:\Program Files (x86)\erl6.4
note: don't include bin on above step.
2- Add %ERLANG_HOME%\bin to the PATH environmental variable:
Variable name : PATH
Variable value: %ERLANG_HOME%\bin
This works well.
There are several RabbitMQ control .bat files on windows. Every one you use needs to get changed to reflect the Erlang path correctly. In this example, I'm editing the rabbitmq-server.bat because it's one of the easier ones... any of the .bat files you want to run will need this hack to get them to work, with the rabbitmq_service.bat file being the most involved to adjust.
editing that rabbitmq_server.bat file, you can see on about line 48 or so there's a check to see if the erl.exe is found, but the path isn't correct:
if not exist "!ERLANG_HOME!\bin\erl.exe" (
that path does not match the file structure for the 5.9.2 version of Erlang. I fixed this by simply removing this path check from about line 48 to 58, then, where the .bat actually makes a call to the erl.exe on about line 129 which reads:
"!ERLANG_HOME!\bin\erl.exe"
I simply hardcoded the path to my erl.exe:
"C:\Program Files\erl5.9.2\erts-5.9.2\bin\erl.exe"
With the pathing correct, the rabbitmq .bat files will run.
I had the similar issue, modifying ERLANG_HOME in .bat files did not work. Then I tried echo %ERLANG_HOME% in command prompt, that did not print the environment variable value(I could see that ERLANG_HOME environment variable has been created under advance system settings), that lead me to believe that I need to restart server for 64 bit installation of Erlang. After rebooting server, It worked like a charm. I hope this helps someone.
Just to share an up-to-date answer as of 2019: On Windows Server 2019, after setting up the environment variable, a restart is required to solve the problem.
I got into same kind of problem.
I solved it by doing three changes as given below.
Update Path variable "ERLANG_HOME" : "C:\Program Files\erl8.0" in Environment Variables.
Upadte "Path" variable "Path" : ";%ERLANG_HOME%\bin;"
Give urself FULL CONTROL permissions over "Program Files" in C drive.
It worked for me in this way.
This problem still occurs in Erlang 18.3 (erl7.3) and RabbitMQ 3.6.9 on Windows when upgrading from any older version of RabbitMQ to version 3.6.9. The solution as already stated here is to manually set ERLANG_HOME with 'setx -m ERLANG_HOME "C:\Program Files\erl7.3"' before starting the service.
What happens is that the RabbitMQ 3.6.9 installer removes the environment variable ERLANG_HOME from the system while removing the older version of RabbitMQ. Then, when it proceeds to the installation step, it does not put back the ERLANG_HOME variable. Then, the batch files that start up RabbitMQ cannot find Erlang. They try to find Erlang's home directory using "where.exe" but it always fails after an upgrade.
RabbitMQ's installer also does not kill all of the Erlang background processes, causing many of its files to be undeletable due to the Windows "file in use" problem. This leaves behind "files in use" in %APPDATA%\RabbitMQ and "C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ." These processes are "erl.exe," "erlsrv.exe," and "epmd.exe." The RabbitMQ installer should taskkill these processes after shutting down the RabbitMQ Windows service.
RabbitMQ is rather clunky on Windows.
Download Erlang or OTP - Only one Version of OTP should be installed
Download RabbitMQ installer
Install both exe file as Administrator
Set class path for Erlang. (Setting classpath is a bit troublesome, so follow these steps)
Set a new path with name ERLANG_HOME and value C:\Program Files\erl-23.1 (do not copy bin folder here)
Edit System "path" and add %ERLANG_HOME%\bin
Go to Start - Open rabbitmq command promt and run
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
Navigate to localhost:15672
Use guest/guest to login
Interesting that this worked for you. There is record of a two bugs in Erl5.9.2 that cause an incomplete installation where %ERLANG_HOME%\bin is not installed.
Either of
* Installed 64bit erlang on 32bit machine
* "The program can't start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer."
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/erlang-programming/wGtFLzapiQ0/discussion
Try 5.9.1 or any other version. They also mention making the future versions of the installer alert you if it fails.
I just had the same problem mentioned here. I installed otp_win64_R15B02 on a Windows 7 machine and everything worked perfectly, but I used the same installer on a Windows 2008 server and the bin directory was not created. I then uninstalled otp_win64_R15B02 and downloaded the otp_win64_R15B02_with_MSVCR100_installer_fix and the bin directory was created.
I suspect the reason it worked on my Windows 7 system is that I have Visual Studio installed and the required libraries were already available which allowed the otp_win64_R15B02 installer to work correctly.
Oh, and if you're installing Erlang to run RabbitMQ the RabbitMQ install will succeed with the broken installer but installing otp_win64_R15B02_with_MSVCR100_installer_fix after RabbitMQ will not work, just un-install and re-install RabbitMQ to resolve this.
Just give C:\Program Files\erl10.6\ not C:\Program Files\erl10.6\bin\erl.exe in the environment variable. If you open the server.bat file I came to know the issueenter image description here
I think this is encoding issue on windows.I see a correct value but I write echo %ERLANG_HOME% on console the value come with question mark. These steps fix it.
1.go environment variable window
2.edit ERLANG_HOME item
3.copy the value, open notepad and paste there
4.copy again on notepad and paste to edit window
5.apply and exit window
6.close command line tools and reopen
7.run rabbitmq bat file.
I solved it in a quick and dirty way,without naming path variables
I've opened the bat file and replaced every occurrence of
!ERLANG_HOME!\bin\erl.exe
with hard coded path for example might be diffrent path for you because of diffrent version
C:\Program Files\erl10.3\erts-10.3\bin\erl.exe
and replaced
%RABBITMQ_HOME%\escript\rabbitmq-plugins
with
C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.7.14\escript\rabbitmq-plugins
Even I was this problem. The issue was the environment variable ERLANG_HOME=c:\Program Files\erl9.0 which was never existed.
I cross checked the path. The correct path was c:\Program Files\erl9.3.
After correcting the
ERLANG_HOME=c:\Program Files\erl9.3
the problem solved. So, definitely it is a path issue.
In my case, it should be installed erlang using admin role running
If above solutions doesn't work for you then you can try following
Find another compatible version of erlang for your rabbit mq e.g. for rabbit 3.7.x erlang version 20.3.x to 22.0.x all are compatible .
Right click newly downloaded erlang version and from properties select the option to unblock the file .
Run the erlang with admin persssion .
Re run rabbit mq exe

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