I had absolutely not luck with the jetty-solr package on Ubuntu 8.04. I haven't tried Tomcat for solr. I do have it running on Ubuntu though. Here's what I did. Hope this helps. Don't do this unless you understand the steps. When I say things like 'remove contents' I don't know what you have in there. But, if you don't have jetty or solr yet, you'll probably be safe
1) wget http://www.trieuvan.com/apache/lucene/solr/1.3.0/apache-solr-1.3.0.tgz 2) wget http://dist.codehaus.org/jetty/jetty-6.1.11/jetty-6.1.11.zip (possibily something newer will work, but so does this.) 3) Get Java 1.6 4) tar -zxvf jetty-6.1.11.zip into /opt 5) ln -s /opt/jetty-6.1.11 jetty 6) remove contents of /opt/jetty/context 7) mkdir /opt/jetty/context/solr 8) tar -zxvf apache-solr-1.3.0.tgz into /opt/jetty/context/solr 9) create a file called /opt/jetty/contexts/jetty-solr.xml with the following contents Change the path to jetty home to you're jetty home. My example here shows /var/solr/home <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Mort Bay Consulting//DTD Configure//EN" "http://jetty.mortbay.org/configure.dtd";> <!-- =============================================================== --> <!-- Configure the test-jndi webapp --> <!-- =============================================================== --> <Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> <!-- Ensure Jetty Plus features are enabled for this webapp --> <Set name="configurationClasses"> <Array type="java.lang.String"> <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebInfConfiguration</Item> <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.plus.webapp.EnvConfiguration</Item> <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.plus.webapp.Configuration</Item> <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.JettyWebXmlConfiguration</Item> <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.TagLibConfiguration</Item> </Array> </Set> <Set name="contextPath">/solr</Set> <Set name="war">/opt/jetty/contexts/solr/</Set> <Set name="extractWAR">false</Set> <Set name="copyWebDir">false</Set> <Set name="descriptor">/opt/jetty/contexts/solr/WEB-INF/web.xml</Set> <!-- Define some env entries for java:comp/env --> <New id="solr.home" class="org.mortbay.jetty.plus.naming.EnvEntry"> <Arg>solr/home</Arg> <Arg type="String">/var/solr/home</Arg> </New> </Configure> 10) start jetty ,,,, a) java -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml while developing b) nohup java -jar start.jar etc/jetty.xml > /dev/null 2>&1 & to make it quiet and headless. I know this doesn't help you get it going on Tomcat. But, perhaps you should considering Jetty. It works under Ubuntu fine. (Note this is a developoment setup. I don't have a production tested setup yet. I hope it's not too different, but I thought I shoudl mention that.) Hope this helps someone cheers gene On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Tricia Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried installing the ubuntu package, but the releases from > apache.org come with an example that contains a directory called "solr" > which contains a directory called "conf" where schema.xml and solrconfig.xml > are important. Is it possible these files do not exist in the path? > > Tricia > > Jack Bates wrote: >> >> No sweat - did you install the Ubuntu solr package or the solr.war from >> http://lucene.apache.org/solr/? >> >> When you say it doesn't work, what exactly do you mean? >> >> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 07:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Jack, >>> Really I would love if you could help me about it ... and tell me what >>> you have in your file >>> ./var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps >>> ./usr/share/tomcat5.5/webapps >>> >>> It doesn't work I dont know why :( >>> Thanks a lot >>> Johanna >>> >>> Jack Bates-2 wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for your suggestions. I have now tried installing Solr on two >>>> different machines. On one machine I installed the Ubuntu solr-tomcat5.5 >>>> package, and on the other I simply dropped "solr.war" >>>> into /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps >>>> >>>> Both machines are running Tomcat 5.5 >>>> >>>> I get the same error message on both machines: >>>> >>>> SEVERE: Exception starting filter SolrRequestFilter >>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class >>>> org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig >>>> >>>> The full error message is attached. >>>> >>>> I can confirm that the /usr/share/solr/WEB-INF/lib/apache-solr-1.2.0.jar >>>> jar file contains: org/apache/solr/core/SolrConfig.class >>>> - however I do not know why Tomcat does not find it. >>>> Thanks again, Jack >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hardy has solr packages already. You might want to look how they >>>>> packaged >>>>> solr if you cannot move to that version. >>>>> Did you just drop the war file? Or did you use JNDI? You probably need >>>>> to >>>>> configure solr/home, and maybe fiddle with >>>>> securitymanager stuff. >>>>> >>>>> Albert >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Jack Bates <ms419 <at> freezone.co.uk> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I am trying to evaluate Solr for an open source records management >>>>>> project to which I contribute: http://code.google.com/p/qubit-toolkit/ >>>>>> >>>>>> I installed the Ubuntu solr-tomcat5.5 package: >>>>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/solr-tomcat5.5 >>>>>> >>>>>> - and pointed my browser at: http://localhost:8180/solr/admin (The >>>>>> Ubuntu and Debian Tomcat packages run on port 8180) >>>>>> >>>>>> However, in response I get a Tomcat 404: The requested >>>>>> resource(/solr/admin) is not available. >>>>>> >>>>>> This differs from the response I get accessing a random URL: >>>>>> http://localhost:8180/foo/bar >>>>>> >>>>>> - which displays a blank page. >>>>>> >>>>>> From this I gather that the solr-tomcat5.5 package installed >>>>>> *something*, but that it's misconfigured or missing something. >>>>>> Unfortunately I lack the Java / Tomcat experience to track down this >>>>>> problem. Can someone recommend where to look, to learn why the Ubuntu >>>>>> solr-tomcat5.5 package is not working? >>>>>> >>>>>> I started an Ubuntu wiki page to eventually describe the process of >>>>>> installing Solr on Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Solr >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, Jack >>>>>> >>>> >>>> Apr 25, 2008 4:46:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext >>>> filterStart >>>> SEVERE: Exception starting filter SolrRequestFilter >>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class >>>> org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:74) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:78) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3635) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.access$0(ContainerBase.java:744) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$PrivilegedAddChild.run(ContainerBase.java:144) >>>> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:738) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) >>>> at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) >>>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) >>>> at >>>> >>>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) >>>> at >>>> >>>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) >>>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) >>>> at >>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) >>>> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) >>>> at >>>> >>>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) >>>> at >>>> >>>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) >>>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) >>>> at >>>> >>>> org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.start(DaemonLoader.java:177) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Quoted from: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-solr-on-ubuntu-8.04-tp17502975p17502975.html >>> >>> >>> > >
