: I have tried indexing from the exampledocs which is just sitting in my : user home directory but now I get a null pointer exception after : running:
just to clarify: are you using solr 1.1 or a nightly build? did you check the log file to ensure thatthere are no exceptions when you start tomcat? are you using the example solrconfig.xml and schema.xml? have you tried doing a search first without indexing any docs to see if that executs and (correctly) returns 0 docs? If i had to guess, i'd speculate that you aren't correctly using a system prop or JNDI to point Solr at your solr home dir, so it's not finding the configs; either that, or you've modified the configs and there is a syntax error -- either way there should be an exception when the server starts up, well before you update any docs. -Hoss
