: 1. I suppose I can start from copying the whole example : directory and name it myindex. I understand that I need : to modify the solr/conf/schema.xml to suit my data. Besides : that, is there anything else that I must/should change? : I'll take a look at the stopwords.txt, etc. to see if any : changes is required. How about solr.war? Anything else I : need to customize? (I'm not a heavy java developer.)
the only things you should need to worry about customizing are in the solr/conf dir ... you should give a critical eye to all of those files (there's some zany protwords.txt and synonyms.txt that only make sense for the example data) you shouldn't need to customize anything else, except the configuration for your servlet container to get it to run solr at the URL you want, and to get it to log things the way you want. : 2. For each index, do I need to copy this directory and start : a solr instance? Is it possible to run one solr instance : for multiple indices? no, each instance manages a single schema and a single data index -- but thta schema can allow for various differnt types of documents that don't need to have anything in common. : 3. solr comes with jetty and it seems to work pretty well. : Is there any reason that I should switch to tomcat for : production servers? it is entirely personal prefrence ... the use of Jetty shouldn't be considered an endorsement, it's just a free, pure java servlet container that was the easiest to bundle into a self contained demo. -Hoss
