playframework - Installing play framework

Question

I am on windows 7 and I am trying to install play framework.

I created the environment variable in system variables with
variable name: play, value: c:webappplay

When I am trying to run play help from commander it says

play is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or 
batch file and it is running only in the directory of c:webappplay.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

To be able to run Play anywhere on the command line, create a PLAY_HOME environment variable pointing to the play folder, for e.g. c:play-2.0.1, and add %PLAY_HOME% to the PATH environment variable.