Why does "activator start" fail with "Bad application path"?

Question

I've created an application in Play Framework using activator new.

Upon activator start this application it's giving me the following error:

Bad application path: -Dhttp.port=9000

How to solve the issue?

Answer 1

I had the same problem but only after creating a binary distribution using the dist command from the activator when I try to run the play application using the Bat file and add some configuration parameters I go the same error.

Here is the error I am getting

Bad application path: -Dhttp.port=9009

So the way I solve it is by editing the Bat file. I manually add all the configuration parameters into the APP_MAIN_CLASS and before the "play.core.server.NettyServer"

something like:

set "APP_MAIN_CLASS= -DapplyEvolutions.default=true -Dhttp.port=9009 play.core.server.NettyServer"