Hi, turning to the mailing list since I cannot find any similar case by googling.
We have troubles searching when the "&" sign is included in the search query, for example; description:"h&m", "m&m" etc. The server setup looks like this. We apache-solr-1.3.0-RC2.war on all machines (same issues with earlier versions so it seems to be unrelated to version) server1 = Master, write-only. java version "1.6.0_03 Linux 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 08:27:05 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux feisty replicaX = Read-only, gets an optimized index from the master early every morning. Linux 2.6.20-16-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:52:19 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux edgy - yes I know, old as hell... Fresh replica: Linux 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:50:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux hardy The strange thing is that the query works on both my local machine(s) and on the master. I thought it could be some Linux locale issue or such since I had similar issues in the past but with non-ascii chars (UTF-8 issues). So instead of inspecting every aspect of the machine I thought a good idea would be to first try the known working index on a fresh box. We copied the master index to a fresh Linux box with a fresh Tomcat installation (the others are using Resin) but we get the same disappointing results as with the first slave's Resin! Just to mention UTF-8 encoding errors is most probably not the issue since we are hosting webapps which uses UTF-8 and they work perfectly. OK... next test: I created a little test case which uses plain Lucene to read and search in the index, this works perfectly on all machines. Next test: Try the SolrServer java client. Same results as the command line client GET, it works on the master but not on the slaves. Finally I downloaded the index to my laptop and reran the same tests there which works perfectly. My conclusion is that it has to be something going on when interpreting the input from the clients in the webapp which is affected by the server setup in some way. Ohh and by the way other searches works just fine, non-ascii chars like swedish åäö etc works like a charm. Help is really appreciated. Kindly //Marcus
