Thanks, Shawn, that is a remarkably clear description. I am able to create the core and all appears fine, but when I go to index I am unfortunately running into a new problem. I am indexing from the same site content as before (it's just an Omeka install with a solr plug-in that reindexes the sitE), but now it only indexes 3 (!) records out of 3000+ and then stops. I have no idea why. The old core - with a different name - still works, even I choose to reindex it. Now I have to figure out which error logs to check -- Solr or Omeka.
Amanda ------ Dr. Amanda Shuman Post-doc researcher, University of Freiburg, The Maoist Legacy Project <http://www.maoistlegacy.uni-freiburg.de/> PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.amandashuman.net/ http://www.prchistoryresources.org/ Office: +49 (0) 761 203 4925 On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 6/7/2018 4:12 AM, Amanda Shuman wrote: > >> Definitely not a permissions problem - everything is run by the solr user, >> which owns everything in the directories. I just can't figure out why the >> default working directory is in opt rather than var (which is where it >> should be according to a previous chain I was in). >> >> But at this point I'm at a total loss, so maybe a fresh install wouldn't >> hurt. >> > > The "bin/solr" script, which is ultimately how Solr is started even when > it is installed as a service, initially sets the current working directory > to a directory that it knows as SOLR_TIP. This is the directory containing > bin, server, and others. It defaults to /opt/solr when Solr is installed > as a service. > > Then just before Solr is started, the script will change the current > working directory to the server directory, which is a subdirectory of > SOLR_TIP. > > So when Solr starts, the current working directory is $SOLR_TIP/server. > > The service installer sets the owner of everything in SOLR_TIP to root. > The solr user has absolutely no reason to write to that directory at all. > Everything that Solr writes will be to an absolute path under the "var dir" > given during service install, which defaults to /var/solr. THAT directory > and all its contents will be owned by the user specified during install, > which defaults to solr. > > The current working directory is where the developers want it, and will > not be in the "var dir". Its location is critical for correct Jetty > operation. When Solr is configured in the expected way for a service > install, it does not use the current working directory. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
