Re: Separate config and index per webapp
Yonik Seeley wrote: I am hoping I can change the default location for each webapp. Thanks! It's not yet possible, but see this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-dev@lucene.apache.org/msg00298.html If I see it right, if I just rename the webapp to, say, "solrfoo" then it still uses the system property solr.solr.home to search for the configuration, *not* solrfoo.solr.home, right? I'm searching for a way to have multiple webapps with different configuration, too. I would really appreciate if that could be made possible. (And sorry, I'd really like to do it myself, but my java knowledge doesn not suffice for that.) Another thing I would like to see is a complete detachment of the solr configuration of that of the servlet container. Currently I have to change the path to the configuration files by setting solr.solr.home or (even worse!) by starting Tomcat (which I use) from it's base home dir. A while ago I proposed to put solr's config into /etc/solr (for linux). It was easily done (even for me) to add this directory to the places being searched in Config.java. I thing if this is put in *additionally* it should be no problem even for those people who just want to try out solr and have no root privileges. Marcus
Re: Newbie with problems getting Solr to run on Tomcat
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 15:46, Yonik Seeley wrote: > For development, It's probably easiest to download Tomcat Core (in tgz > or zip format) from > http://www.signal42.com/mirrors/apache/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.17/bin/apache-t >omcat-5.5.17.tar.gz and simply unarchive it yourself... that way things > aren't spread all across the system. > > Then cp -r solr/example/solr to the TomCat home directory > and cp solr/example/webapps/solr.war to the TomCat dir under webapps. > > Start Tomcat from it's base home dir via ./bin/startup.sh Great, I got it working in no time. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.. Goodie - now, back to work for me.. I've got a search-page to set up. -fangel > > -Yonik
Re: Separate config and index per webapp
: If I see it right, if I just rename the webapp to, say, "solrfoo" then : it still uses the system property solr.solr.home to search for the : configuration, *not* solrfoo.solr.home, right? correct .. we thought we can impliment something that looked at the war file name easily ... but then we were set straight -- there is no portable way to do that, hence we came up with the current JNDI plan which isn't quite as "out of the box" as we had hoped, but it has the advantage of being possible. : Another thing I would like to see is a complete detachment of the solr : configuration of that of the servlet container. Currently I have to I don't know that we'll ever be able to make configuring Solr completely detatched from configuring the servlet container -- other then the simplest method of putting your. Personally i don't think that should be a major goal: a well tuned Solr installation is going to require that you consider/configure your servlet container's heap size to meet your needs anyway. : change the path to the configuration files by setting solr.solr.home or : (even worse!) by starting Tomcat (which I use) from it's base home dir. just to clarify: if you only want one instance of Solr on the port, you do't *have* to start tomcat from it's base directory ... you just have to make sure the "solr" directory is in whatever the current working directory is when you do start it. many servlet container start scripts already make sure to set the working directory to the installation directory before starting up the server, so maybe that's the source of the confusion? : A while ago I proposed to put solr's config into /etc/solr (for linux). : It was easily done (even for me) to add this directory to the places : being searched in Config.java. I thing if this is put in *additionally* : it should be no problem even for those people who just want to try out : solr and have no root privileges. 1) I'm not sure how this would work cleanly for people on Windows boxes 2) this still wouldn't make it possible to suport multiple webapps on a single port (it would acctually make it hard to support multiple ports on the same box). If the JNDI approach gets implimented, then it should make it easy for you to specify /etc/solr (or any other directory) as your config directory with a one line change to your tomcat configuration. But please don't let me discourage you from experiencing with this approach yourself, and submitting a patch that does what you'd like ... Perhaps I'm just missunderstanding. -Hoss
Re: Separate config and index per webapp
I copied solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, synonyms.txt, protwords.txt and stopwords.txt into the WEB-INF/classes directory and the webapp is reading those files. I was thinking that if I uncommented the indexDir element in solrconfig.xml, it would then use that directory in which to place the index The commented-out default value is: index I tried changing the value to: indexXXX However this is being ignored; the index directory is still being created under Tomcat's current-working-directory/solr/conf/index (In my case I'm testing under Windows and it's C:\Tomcat 5.5\solr\data\index) Any ideas? Thanks. Mike Baranczak wrote: On May 15, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: On 5/15/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to use Solr for a number of separate projects running on a single Tomcat instance; I thought I would have Solr running a separate webapp for each project. I understand that the default location for the solrconfig.xml and schema.xml files and for the index are under Tomcat's current-working-directory/solr/conf I am hoping I can change the default location for each webapp. Thanks! It's not yet possible, but see this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-dev@lucene.apache.org/msg00298.html It looks like JNDI offers the easiest portable way. The main SolrServlet would then need to be modified to do a JNDI lookup and base config off of that. The way I did it is I unpacked the WAR and put my config files into WEB-INF/classes/. Then I individually edit each app's solrconfig.xml and specify a unique path for the index directory. This may not be for everyone, but since I had to unpack the WAR anyway... -MB
Re: Separate config and index per webapp
Try using the latest nightly build, and changing indexDir to dataDir: -Yonik On 5/17/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I copied solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, synonyms.txt, protwords.txt and stopwords.txt into the WEB-INF/classes directory and the webapp is reading those files. I was thinking that if I uncommented the indexDir element in solrconfig.xml, it would then use that directory in which to place the index The commented-out default value is: index I tried changing the value to: indexXXX However this is being ignored; the index directory is still being created under Tomcat's current-working-directory/solr/conf/index (In my case I'm testing under Windows and it's C:\Tomcat 5.5\solr\data\index) Any ideas? Thanks. Mike Baranczak wrote: > On May 15, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > >> On 5/15/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'd like to use Solr for a number of separate projects running on a >>> single Tomcat instance; I thought I would have Solr running a separate >>> webapp for each project. >>> >>> I understand that the default location for the solrconfig.xml and >>> schema.xml files and for the index are under Tomcat's >>> current-working-directory/solr/conf >>> >>> I am hoping I can change the default location for each webapp. Thanks! >> >> It's not yet possible, but see this thread: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-dev@lucene.apache.org/msg00298.html >> >> It looks like JNDI offers the easiest portable way. >> The main SolrServlet would then need to be modified to do a JNDI >> lookup and base config off of that. > > > The way I did it is I unpacked the WAR and put my config files into > WEB-INF/classes/. Then I individually edit each app's solrconfig.xml > and specify a unique path for the index directory. This may not be for > everyone, but since I had to unpack the WAR anyway... > > -MB
Re: Separate config and index per webapp
Yeah, the config that I have (based on the repo version from a couple weeks ago) has set, and it works as expected. I don't know where the indexDir came from. On May 17, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: Try using the latest nightly build, and changing indexDir to dataDir: -Yonik On 5/17/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I copied solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, synonyms.txt, protwords.txt and stopwords.txt into the WEB-INF/classes directory and the webapp is reading those files. I was thinking that if I uncommented the indexDir element in solrconfig.xml, it would then use that directory in which to place the index The commented-out default value is: index I tried changing the value to: indexXXX However this is being ignored; the index directory is still being created under Tomcat's current-working-directory/solr/conf/index (In my case I'm testing under Windows and it's C:\Tomcat 5.5\solr\data \index) Any ideas? Thanks. Mike Baranczak wrote: > On May 15, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > >> On 5/15/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'd like to use Solr for a number of separate projects running on a >>> single Tomcat instance; I thought I would have Solr running a separate >>> webapp for each project. >>> >>> I understand that the default location for the solrconfig.xml and >>> schema.xml files and for the index are under Tomcat's >>> current-working-directory/solr/conf >>> >>> I am hoping I can change the default location for each webapp. Thanks! >> >> It's not yet possible, but see this thread: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-dev@lucene.apache.org/ msg00298.html >> >> It looks like JNDI offers the easiest portable way. >> The main SolrServlet would then need to be modified to do a JNDI >> lookup and base config off of that. > > > The way I did it is I unpacked the WAR and put my config files into > WEB-INF/classes/. Then I individually edit each app's solrconfig.xml > and specify a unique path for the index directory. This may not be for > everyone, but since I had to unpack the WAR anyway... > > -MB
Re: Separate config and index per webapp
Changing to works fine with my version from 2006-05-15 Thanks for your help, this is just what I needed. Yonik Seeley wrote: Try using the latest nightly build, and changing indexDir to dataDir: -Yonik On 5/17/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I copied solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, synonyms.txt, protwords.txt and stopwords.txt into the WEB-INF/classes directory and the webapp is reading those files. I was thinking that if I uncommented the indexDir element in solrconfig.xml, it would then use that directory in which to place the index The commented-out default value is: index I tried changing the value to: indexXXX However this is being ignored; the index directory is still being created under Tomcat's current-working-directory/solr/conf/index (In my case I'm testing under Windows and it's C:\Tomcat 5.5\solr\data\index) Any ideas? Thanks. Mike Baranczak wrote: > On May 15, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > >> On 5/15/06, Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'd like to use Solr for a number of separate projects running on a >>> single Tomcat instance; I thought I would have Solr running a separate >>> webapp for each project. >>> >>> I understand that the default location for the solrconfig.xml and >>> schema.xml files and for the index are under Tomcat's >>> current-working-directory/solr/conf >>> >>> I am hoping I can change the default location for each webapp. Thanks! >> >> It's not yet possible, but see this thread: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-dev@lucene.apache.org/msg00298.html >> >> It looks like JNDI offers the easiest portable way. >> The main SolrServlet would then need to be modified to do a JNDI >> lookup and base config off of that. > > > The way I did it is I unpacked the WAR and put my config files into > WEB-INF/classes/. Then I individually edit each app's solrconfig.xml > and specify a unique path for the index directory. This may not be for > everyone, but since I had to unpack the WAR anyway... > > -MB
Re: Separate config and index per webapp
Chris Hostetter wrote: correct .. we thought we can impliment something that looked at the war file name easily ... but then we were set straight -- there is no portable way to do that, hence we came up with the current JNDI plan which isn't quite as "out of the box" as we had hoped, but it has the advantage of being possible. Yes, I observed the discussion on the developer mailing list for a while and was suprised to read that there isn't an easy solution for this problem. I don't know that we'll ever be able to make configuring Solr completely detatched from configuring the servlet container -- other then the simplest method of putting your. Personally i don't think that should be a major goal: a well tuned Solr installation is going to require that you consider/configure your servlet container's heap size to meet your needs anyway. Good point. Currently I'm using the solr.solr.home system property and besides the heap size it is the only Solr specific configuration I have to do with Tomcat. So I can live with that. just to clarify: if you only want one instance of Solr on the port, you do't *have* to start tomcat from it's base directory I know, I just wanted to point out that somehow Tomcat is involved in the Solr configuration. ... you just have to make sure the "solr" directory is in whatever the current working directory is when you do start it. But what if another webapp needs the server to be started from /some/directory/it/likes ? If the JNDI approach gets implimented, then it should make it easy for you to specify /etc/solr (or any other directory) as your config directory with a one line change to your tomcat configuration. I'm looking forward to that. :-) Thanks, Marcus
