Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-18 Thread Christopher Gross
I was able to get the new collections working dynamically (via Collections RESTful calls). I was having some other issues with my development environment that I had to fix up to get it going. I had to upgrade to 4.5 in order for the aliases to work at all though. Not sure what the deal was with t

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-17 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/17/2013 12:51 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: OK, super confused now. http://index1:8080/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=test2&collection=test2&numshards=1&replicationFactor=3 Nets me this: 400 15007 Error CREATEing SolrCore 'test2': Could not find configName for collection test2 fou

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-17 Thread Michael Della Bitta
> load the configs into zookeeper, Yes. > stop tomcat, add it to the solr.xml file, and restart tomcat. To your CREATE URL, add the parameter &collection.configName= http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud#Managing_collections_via_the_Collections_API Michael Della Bitta Applications Developer o

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-17 Thread Christopher Gross
something like: > > {"collection":{"AdWorksQuery":"AdWorks"}} > > Or access the Zookeeper instance, and do a 'get /aliases.json'. > > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, Octobe

RE: Switching indexes

2013-10-17 Thread Garth Grimm
nal Message- From: Christopher Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 2:40 PM To: solr-user Subject: Re: Switching indexes Also, when I make an alias: http://index1:8080/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATEALIAS&name=test1-alias&collections=test1 I get a prett

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-17 Thread Christopher Gross
Also, when I make an alias: http://index1:8080/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATEALIAS&name=test1-alias&collections=test1 I get a pretty useless response: 00 So I'm not sure if it is made. I tried going to: http://index1:8080/solr/test1-alias/select?q=*:* but that didn't work. How do I use an

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-17 Thread Christopher Gross
OK, super confused now. http://index1:8080/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=test2&collection=test2&numshards=1&replicationFactor=3 Nets me this: 400 15007 Error CREATEing SolrCore 'test2': Could not find configName for collection test2 found:[xxx, xxx, , x, xx] 400 For that

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Christopher Gross
Thanks Shawn, the explanations help bring me forward to the "SolrCloud" mentality. So it sounds like going forward that I should have a more complicated name (ex: coll1-20131015) aliased to coll1, to make it easier to switch in the future. Now, if I already have an index (copied from one location

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/16/2013 11:51 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > Ok, so I think I was confusing the terminology (still in a 3.X mindset I > guess.) > > From the Cloud->Tree, I do see that I have "collections" for what I was > calling "core1", "core2", etc. > > So, to redo the above, > Servers: index1, index2,

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Christopher Gross
Ok, so I think I was confusing the terminology (still in a 3.X mindset I guess.) >From the Cloud->Tree, I do see that I have "collections" for what I was calling "core1", "core2", etc. So, to redo the above, Servers: index1, index2, index3 Collections: (on each) coll1, coll2 Collection (core?) on

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/16/2013 9:44 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > Garth, > > I think I get what you're saying, but I want to make sure. > > I have 3 servers (index1, index2, index3), with Solr living on port 8080. > > Each of those has 3 cores loaded with data: > core1 (old version) > core1new (new version) > c

RE: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Garth Grimm
ve entries in /aliases.json that will tell you what aliases are defined and what they point to. -Original Message- From: Christopher Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:44 AM To: solr-user Subject: Re: Switching indexes Garth, I think I get what you

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Christopher Gross
lias. > > -----Original Message- > From: Christopher Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:05 AM > To: solr-user > Subject: Re: Switching indexes > > Shawn, > > It all makes sense, I'm just dealing with production servers here so

RE: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Garth Grimm
Gross [mailto:cogr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:05 AM To: solr-user Subject: Re: Switching indexes Shawn, It all makes sense, I'm just dealing with production servers here so I'm trying to be very careful (shutting down one node at a time is OK, just don't want to

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-16 Thread Christopher Gross
Shawn, It all makes sense, I'm just dealing with production servers here so I'm trying to be very careful (shutting down one node at a time is OK, just don't want to do something catastrophic.) OK, so I should use that aliasing feature. On index1 I have: core1 core1new core2 On index2 and index

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-15 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/15/2013 2:17 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: I have 3 Solr nodes (and 5 ZK nodes). For #1, would I have to do that on all of them? For #2, I'm not getting the auto-replication between node 1 and nodes 2 & 3 for my new index. I have 2 indexes -- just call them "index" and "indexbk" (bk being

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-15 Thread Christopher Gross
Thanks Shawn. I have 3 Solr nodes (and 5 ZK nodes). For #1, would I have to do that on all of them? For #2, I'm not getting the auto-replication between node 1 and nodes 2 & 3 for my new index. I have 2 indexes -- just call them "index" and "indexbk" (bk being the backup containing the full data

Re: Switching indexes

2013-10-15 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/15/2013 12:36 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: In Solr 3.x, whenever I'd reindex content, I'd fill up one instance, copy the whole "data" directory over to the second (or third) instance and then restart that Tomcat to get the indexes lined up. With Solr 4.1, I'm guessing that I can't go and d