Right, the core admin API is pretty low-level, it expects the base directory exists, you have to create the directory structure by hand.
Best, Erick On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Miller, William K - Norman, OK - Contractor <william.k.mil...@usps.gov.invalid> wrote: > Thanks Erick for pointing me in this direction. Unfortunately when I try to > us this I get an error. Here is the command that I am using and the response > I get: > > https://solrserver:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=mycore&instanceDir=/var/solr/data/mycore&dataDir=data&configSet=custom_configs > > > [1] 32023 > [2] 32024 > [3] 32025 > -bash: https://solrserver:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE: No such file > or directory > [4] 32026 > [1] Exit 127 > https://solrserver:8983/solr/adkmin/cores?action=CREATE > [2] Done name=mycore > [3]- Done instanceDir=/var/solr/data/mycore > [4]+ Done dataDir=data > > > I even tried to use the UNLOAD action to remove a core and got the same type > of error as the -bash line above. > > I have tried searching online for an answer and have found nothing so far. > Any ideas why this error is occuring. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > William Kevin Miller > > ECS Federal, Inc. > USPS/MTSC > (405) 573-2158 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 3:33 PM > To: solr-user > Subject: Re: Modifing create_core's instanceDir attribute > > I don't think you can. You can, however, use the core admin API to do that, > see: > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/coreadmin-api.html#coreadmin-api > > Best, > Erick > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Miller, William K - Norman, OK - Contractor > <william.k.mil...@usps.gov.invalid> wrote: > >> I know that when the create_core command is used that it sets the core >> to the name of the parameter supplied with the “-c” option and the >> instanceDir attribute in the http is also set to the name of the core. >> What I want is to tell the create_core to use a different instanceDir >> parameter. How can I go about doing this? >> >> >> >> >> >> I am using Solr 6.5.1 and it is running on a linux server using the >> apache tomcat webserver. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> William Kevin Miller >> >> [image: ecsLogo] >> >> ECS Federal, Inc. >> >> USPS/MTSC >> >> (405) 573-2158 >> >> >>
