Hi Mark, it should be that simple. Just download the solr you want ( 5.3.0 for example is fine).
Use this as a baseline : /Users/alessandro/Downloads/solr-5.3.1/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf Please report any weird behaviour. Cheers On 1 November 2015 at 16:03, Mark Fenbers <mark.fenb...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Greetings! > > I want my spell-checker to be based on a file (/usr/share/dict/linux.words > should suffice). Word-breaks features would also be a benefit. I have > previously indexed my docs for searching with minimal alterations to the > baseline Solr configuration. My "docs" are user-typed text, typically a > paragraph or two. The Solr searching feature works very well with my local > customization. With the success of using the search feature, I now move on > to adding spell-checking capabilities to my project. > > Though my archive of docs *does* contain many technical terms and coded > site identifiers, I prefer not to use the index-based spellcheck at this > time, because the archive has never been previously spell-checked and I'm > apprehensive that misspelled words will appear in my suggestions. But the > index-based spell-checker is the baseline configuration, so I need to > change that to use file-based spell checking. Intuitively, this seems as > simple as commenting out the IndexBasedSpellChecker XML section and > uncommenting the FileBasedSpellChecker XML section in the solrconfig.xml > file that I've customized. But in doing that, I have gotten quite bizarre > results, and though I've had much help from some very smart (and patient) > contributors on this forum, I still have never gotten spell-checking to > work in any meaningful way, even using the debugger. > > So, my question for now is: > > Should setting up a file-based spell checker just a matter of starting > with the baseline solrconfig.xml and commenting out the Index-based spell > checker and uncommenting the File-based Spell Checker (and changing the > SourceLocation value), or am I overlooking too much?? But my second > question is, which "baseline" solrconfig.xml should I use as a starting > point, because there are several solrconfig.xml file nested in the > subfolders when I unzip the tarball? I'm using 5.3.0 in case that matters. > > Thanks! > Mark > > > -- -------------------------- Benedetti Alessandro Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti "Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England