I'm trying to find a good beginner level guide to setting up SolrCloud NOT using the example configs that are provided with SOLR.
Here are my goals (and the steps I have done so far!): 1. Use an external Zookeeper server a. wget http://apache.claz.org/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.3.6/zookeeper-3.3.6.tar.gz b. uncompress into /apps folder (Our company uses this type of standard folder, so I'm following suit here) c. Copy zoo_sample.cfg to zoo.cfg d. Update data folder to: /apps/zookeeperData e. Bin/zkServer.sh start 2. Install SOLR on both nodes a. wget http://www.us.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/6.4.1/solr-6.4.1.tgz b. tar xzf solr-6.4.1.tgz solr-6.4.1/bin/install_solr_service.sh --strip-components=2 c. ./install_solr_service.sh solr-6.4.1.tgz d. Update solr.in.sh to include the ZKHome variable set to my ZK server's ip on port 2181 Now it seems if I start SOLR manually with bin/solr start -c -p 8080 -z <ZK IP>:2181 then it will actually load, but if I let it auto start, I get an HTTP 500 error on the Admin UI for SOLR. I also can't seem to figure out what I need to upload into Zookeeper as far as configuration files go. I created a test collection on the instance when I got it up one time...but it has yet to start properly again for me. Are there any GOOD tutorials out there? I have read most of the documentation I can get my hands on thus far from Apache, and blogs and such, but the light bulb still has not lit up for me yet and I feel like a n00b ;-) My company is currently running SOLR in the old master/slave config and I'm trying to setup a SOLRCloud so that we can toy with it in a Dev/QA Environment and see what it's capable of. We're currently running 4 separate master/slave SOLR server pairs in production to spread out the load a bit, but I'd rather see us migrate towards a cluster/cloud scenario to gain some computing power here! Any help is GREATLY appreciated! Scott
