title: How do I launch WebSphere Portal Admin Console
body: <p>I have WebSphere Portal 8.0 on my laptop running Windows 7 Professional and I do not know how to launch the admin console.</p>
  
  <p>I tried typing at the command prompt install-directory\wp-profile\bin startServer server1
  and get a FileNotFoundException.  When I look into the log it says...</p>
  
  <p>Exception java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\IBM\WebSphere\wp_profile\config\cells\Mitch-PCCell\nodes\Mitch-PCNode\servers\server1\server.xml (The system cannot find the path specified.)</p>
  
  <p>inside the "server" folder in above error is another folder for WebSphere_Portal but not for server1.</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p>PS:  I am very very very new to WebSphere Portal :)</p>