Re: Solr 5.x deployment in production

2015-04-17 Thread Steven White
Thanks Shawn, this makes a lot of sense. With WAR going away and no mention of Solr deployment strategy (see: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Taking+Solr+to+Production) isn't good; there is a gab in Solr's release. It feels as if Solr 5.x was rushed out ignoring Windows Servers de

Re: Solr 5.x deployment in production

2015-04-17 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 4/16/2015 2:07 PM, Steven White wrote: > In my case, I have to deploy Solr on Windows, AIX, and Linux (all server > edition). We are a WebSphere shop, moving away from it means I have to > deal with politics and culture. You *can* run Solr 5.0 (and 5.1) in another container, just like you coul

Re: Solr 5.x deployment in production

2015-04-16 Thread Steven White
Thanks Karl. In my case, I have to deploy Solr on Windows, AIX, and Linux (all server edition). We are a WebSphere shop, moving away from it means I have to deal with politics and culture. For Windows, I cannot use NSSM so I have to figure a solution managing Solr (at least start-up and shutdown

Re: Solr 5.x deployment in production

2015-04-16 Thread Karl Kildén
I asked a very similar question recently. You should switch to using the package as is and forget that it contains a .war. The war is now an internal component. Also switch to the new script for startup etc. I have seen several disappointed users that disagree with this decision but I assume the p