Try adding just 'kirk' to the end of the 2nd line so it looks like this: 127.0.1.1 kirk.nald.ca kirk
You can also confirm that just 'kirk' is the hostname by running the 'hostname' command. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Beers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 8:37:07 AM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles Subject: Re: Solr Tutorial Issue Here is the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 kirk.nald.ca # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts 64.5.219.172 instructors.gonssal.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Yousef Ourabi wrote: > can you run: "cat /etc/hosts" and paste the output in an email. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kirk Beers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:46:13 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles > Subject: Re: Solr Tutorial Issue > > Hi Hoss, > > I get an error that reads java.net.UnknownHostException kirk : kirk > > I will point out that I am new to Linux as well ! > > Thanks > > Kirk > > > Chris Hostetter wrote: > >> This thread in general is really confusing to me ... if you are following >> along withthe tutorial then tomcat should never enter the equation ... >> "java -jar start.jar" will use a copy of Jetty that is included in the >> Solr release to spin up a self contained webserver totally indepent of any >> application server you may already have installed. (that's the whole >> reason for the start.jar, you don't need to worry about wether you have a >> servlet container installed correctly) >> >> When you run "java -jar start.jar" do you get logging output in your >> console? is there anything in that logging output that looks like a stack >> trace? what gets added to the end of that loggign output when you then >> hit the url http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/ in your browser? >> >> : 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!! >> >> >> -Hoss >> >> >> > > >