Thank you, Hoss, for replying m question. > : An important factor in the instruction is that Tomcat must > : be started from the directory under which the solr directory > : (copied from the exmaple) exists....
> that's not true. if you use JNDI or system properties to > configure the > "solr home", then the working directory for Tomcat can be anything you > want. ... That's another thing I ma having problem with. Tomcat seems to have changed the way to configure things, starting with 5.5. If I follow the instruction given in the "Configuraing Solr Home with JNDI" section in > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat Tomat ignores it with this warning message in the log: WARNING: A docBase /home/kuro/solr-tomcat/tomcat-5.5.23/webapps/solr.war inside the host appBase has been specified, and will be ignored > cna you suggest any ways to make hte documentation more clear? . I'd simply add another sentence at the end of Simpe Example Install: ... by default. If you would like to run startup.sh from somewhere else, specify the solr home as described in the next section. -kuro
