Faceted Browsing questions

2006-06-23 Thread Vish D.
Hi all, I am trying to figure out how I can have some type of faceted browsing working. I am also in need of a way to get a list of unique field values within a query's results set (for filtering, etc...). When I say trying, I mean having it up and running without much coding, b/c of time reasons

Re: Faceted Browsing questions

2006-06-23 Thread Erik Hatcher
I'm extremely time constrained at the moment, but I'll reply briefly. Solr provides the ground work for making faceted features possible, but out of the box it does not provide it without coding a custom request handler and knowing a little about Lucene and Solr's APIs. As you've seen, bi

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Bill Au
Solr itself does not handle failover and load balancing of the slave servers. You can put a load balancer in front of the pool of slave servers for that. You can add and remove slave servers from the pool dynamicly without making any change of the master and other slaves. Bill On 6/23/06, Jeff R

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: You can put a load balancer in front of the pool of slave servers for that. Solr does have some features designed to make Load Balancing easy * "healthcheck" URLs that your LoadBalancer can query to determine when it should add/remove a server from rotation * a pingQuery which allowing yo

Re: Faceted Browsing questions

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: nature of the data I am working with. I have searched through the mailing : list and seen some posts mentioning BitSets DocSets, etc.., but wasn't clear : on if those are already built into the solr's nightly builds (I don't see : any documentation either on the wiki, or online). Can some please

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
Should the /admin/ping URL work on any Solr instance? i.e., http://solr-server:8080/solr/admin/ping? I'm seeing a 500 error. Based on this information, it doesn't sound as if any failover or LB capacity in Tomcat is being used. Is that correct? thanks, j On 6/23/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Distribution and Tomcat

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
O/E on the ping. Just found the adminPing config setting. On 6/23/06, Jeff Rodenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Should the /admin/ping URL work on any Solr instance? i.e., http://solr-server:8080/solr/admin/ping? I'm seeing a 500 error. Based on this information, it doesn't sound as if any fa