Thanks for all your help. I decided to switch to Ubuntu linux.
Allan elkowitzelkow...@alumni.caltech.edu
On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 1:44 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org>
wrote:
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
