Hi Matthew,
The problem is that we have multiple instances of solr running under one
tomcat. So setting -Dsolr.data.dir=foo would set the home for every solr. I
guess multi-core might solve my problem, but that'd change our app
architecture too much, maybe some other day.
I *kind* of have a solution for the permissions thing though:
- The project user is part of the tomcat group.
- The tomcat user is part of the project user group.
- We're making a call to "umask 002" in the tomcat catalina.sh file (means
all files created will have group write)
So when solr (tomcat) creates the index, they're group writable now and I
can remove etc.!
So, I still need to figure out the data.dir problem. Hmm.
Thanks for your help,
Matt
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Matthew Runo <mr...@zappos.com> wrote:
> It looks like if you set a -Dsolr.data.dir=foo then you could specify where
> the index would be stored, yes? Are you properly setting your solr.home?
> I've never had to set the data directory specifically, Solr has always put
> it under my home.
>
> From solrconfig.xml:
> <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:./solr/data}</dataDir>
>
> Since Solr is running under tomcat, I'd assume that the index will always
> appear to be owned by tomcat as well. I don't think there is any way to have
> a different user for the written files - but someone else might want to
> chime in before you believe me 100% on this one.
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Matthew Runo
> Software Engineer, Zappos.com
> mr...@zappos.com - 702-943-7833
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Matt Mitchell wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm sorry if this is the second time this message comes through!
>>
>> A few questions here...
>>
>> #1
>> Does anyone know how to set the user/group and/or permissions on the index
>> that solr creates? It's always the tomcat user. Is it possible to change
>> this in my context file? Help!
>>
>> #2
>> I'm deploying Solr via Tomcat and really thought I had this stuff down.
>> But
>> it seems that with some recent system upgrades, my scheme is failing to
>> set
>> the data dir correctly.
>>
>> I'm deploying solr to tomcat, using a context file as described here:
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat#head-024d7e11209030f1dbcac9974e55106abae837ac
>>
>> But when I deploy, Tomcat says that it can't find a ./data/index directory
>> -- relative to the tomcat home directory. How can I set the data dir
>> relative to the solr home value I'm specifying in the tomcat context file?
>> Note: a hard-coded absolute path works, but I want to configure at
>> deployment time.
>>
>> In the past, I tried setting the data dir in the same way the solr home is
>> set in the context file without luck. Does this now work in the latest
>> solr
>> nightly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
>
