Kirk, Perhaps I mis-understood your initial question. If you are just following the get started tutorial you have to do a few things to get solr running on tomcat.
Here is the Wiki resource: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat Hope this helps. -Yousef ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Beers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:56:51 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles Subject: Re: Solr Tutorial Issue Hi Yousef, Thanks for the reply! I am presently using the download from the Apache site and don't seem to be having much luck either. Yousef Ourabi wrote: > Kirk, > I'm also having trouble with the apt-installed tomcat5.5 instance -- though I > haven't really taken enough time to figure it out. The same Context fragment > works fine on the Debian etch apt-installed tomcat -- so I'm fairly sure it's > specific to Ubuntu. > > A quick work-around would be to just download a copy of tomcat from apache > and run that (export JAVA_HOME, bin/catalina.sh start) > > -Yousef > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kirk Beers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:18:31 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles > Subject: Solr Tutorial Issue > > Hi, > > I am running Ubuntu, Java1.6 jdk and tomcat5.5. I can not seem to get > the tutorial to run. The instructions seem simple and clear. > > start.jar ran fine but when I used http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/ > nothing appeared. I also individually copied the > apache-solr-nightly/dist/apache-solr-nightly.war and the > apache-solr-nightly/example/webapps/solr.war to my tomcat webapps and > still nothing!! > > Any feedback would be greatly appreciated ASAP > > Thanks > > Kirk > >