On 7/7/2015 10:43 AM, Allan Elkowitz wrote: > So I am a newbie at Solr and am having trouble getting the examples working > on Windows 7. > I downloaded and unzipped the distribution and have been able to get Solr up > and running. I can access the admin page. However, when I try to follow the > instructions for loading the examples I find that there is a file that I am > supposed to have called post.jar which I cannot find in the directory > specified, exampledocs. There is a file called "post" in another directory > but it does not seem to be a .jar file. > Two questions: > 1. Has this been addressed on some site that I am not yet aware of? > 2. What am I missing here?
The post.jar file is in example\exampledocs in the Solr 5.2.1 download. The "bin\post" file is a shell script for Linux/UNIX systems that offers easier access to the SimplePostTool class included in the solr-core jar. Unfortunately, no Windows equivalent (post.cmd) exists yet. If you're getting the impression that Windows is a second-class citizen around here, you are not really wrong. A typical Solr user has found that the free operating systems offer better performance and stability, with the added advantage that they don't have to pay Microsoft a pile of money in order to get useful work done. Windows, especially the server operating systems, is a perfectly good platform, but it's not free. Thanks, Shawn
