Steve, with Solr 1.2 you have to restart. And if you use index-time synonyms you really ought to reindex.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Stephen Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:55:44 AM > Subject: updating synonyms file > > Hi, > > I'm running Solr 1.2, we are not able to upgrade yet. We've started > using synonyms to make the search results better but a few of the > synonyms turn out to have unexpected results. We have modifications > to our synonyms file that need to go in very quickly but I can't seem > to figure out a way to get Solr to recognize that the synonyms have > changed. Is there a command I would run to get Solr to reload the > synonyms file? The only way I've figured out is to restart solr but > now it is in production use and it's really not feasible to just > restart Solr. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! > > -- > Steve