Hi, Have you looked at this page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat
It almost sounds like you're deploying twice? Putting the solr.war in webapps would be one way, and the other would be a context config file + using the web manager. If you're using the config/context, then don't put the solr.war in webapps, tomcat should do that for you after deploying with the manager. Matt On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Sudharshan S <sudha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to setup a solr instance with Tomcat5 on a Fedora10 > machine. Here is what I did, > > 1.) Copy the apache-solr-nightly.war to webapps/solr.war > 2.) Set solr.solr.home in tomcat.conf > 3.) Use the Manager interface of tomcat to deploy the webapp > > But, while doing so, I get the following exceptions. > -------- > Mar 4, 2009 6:55:09 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:76) > 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.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1173) > at > org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:549) > at > org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:105) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172) > at > org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) > at > org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875) > at > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) > ---------------- > > What am I missing? If it matters I am running the nightly build from > March 3 2009. > > Thanks and Regards > Sudharshan S > Blog : http://www.sudharsh.wordpress.com > IRC : Sup3rkiddo @ Freenode, Gimpnet >