Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-30 Thread Jarus Bosman
OK, solved. It seems I had to first create a core, then configure Drupal to point to the path for that core. I have to say, this is one of the more helpful lists I have used. Thanks a lot for your help! "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." - Mitchel

Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-30 Thread Erick Erickson
Whoa! I thought you were going for SolrCloud. If you're not interested in SolrCloud, you don't need to know anything about Zookeeper. So it looks like Solr is running. You say: bq: When I try to connect to :8983/solr, I get a timeout. Does it sound like firewall issues? are you talking abou

Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-30 Thread Jarus Bosman
OK, an update. I managed to remove the example/cloud directories, and stop Solr. I changed my startup script to be much simpler (./solr start) and now I get this: *[root@ bin]# ./startsolr.sh* *Waiting up to 30 seconds to see Solr running on port 8983 [|]* *Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid=31

Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-29 Thread Jarus Bosman
Hi Erick, Thanks for the reply. It seems I have not done all my homework yet. We used to use Solr 3.6.2 on the old environment (we're using it in conjunction with Drupal). When I got connectivity problems on the new server, I decided to rather implement the latest version of Solr (5.5.0). I read

Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-29 Thread Jarus Bosman
Hi Shyam, Yes, I've stopped and restarted the process a number of times. I get the same result every time. J "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant." - Mitchell Kapor .---. .-. .-..-. .-.,'|"\.---.,--, / .-. ) ) \_/ / \ \_/ )/| |\ \ / .

Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-29 Thread Erick Erickson
Good to meet you! It looks like you've tried to start Solr a time or two. When you start up the "cloud" example it creates /opt/solr-5.5.0/example/cloud and puts your SolrCloud stuff under there. It also automatically puts your configuration sets up on Zookeeper. When I get this kind of thing, I u

Re: Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-29 Thread Shyam R
Hi Jarus, Have you tried stopping the solr process and restarting the cluster again? Thanks Shyam On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Jarus Bosman wrote: > Hi, > > Introductions first (as I was taught): My name is Jarus Bosman, I am a > software developer from South Africa, doing development in J

Solr not working on new environment

2016-03-29 Thread Jarus Bosman
Hi, Introductions first (as I was taught): My name is Jarus Bosman, I am a software developer from South Africa, doing development in Java, PHP and Delphi. I have been programming for 19 years and find out more every day that I don't actually know anything about programming ;). My problem: We re