Vivek - no, unless you want trouble - only 1 writer can write to a specific index at a time.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: vivek sar <vivex...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 4:33:00 AM > Subject: Multiple Solr-instance share same solr.home > > Hi, > > Is it possible to have two solr instances share the same solr.home? > I've two Solr instances running on the same box and I was wondering if > I can configure them to have the same solr.home. I tried it, but looks > like the second instance overwrites the first one's value in the > solr.xml (I'm using multicore for both instances). This is just for > convenience so I don't have to manage multiple solr index directory > locations - I can have all the indexes written into the same location > and do the clean up from one place itself. If this is not supported > then it's not a big deal. > > Thanks, > -vivek
