Hi All, Finally I made the multicore thing running by copying the core0 and core1 directory to $solr.home and putting a solr.xml file under the same directory. A bit relieved ! I would like to do on-the-fly registration of core[I've provision to add unique corenames everytime I register a new one] and as per the basic requirements mentioned in the wiki[http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin] I did the following: 1. set persistent="true" and sharedLIb="lib" For this I actually copied the file given in wiki and put it under solr.home. Started tomcat and tried to register a new core named core3 like this[I'm running solr on 8080] http://localhost:8080/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=core2 and the browser gave me error saying that instanceDir is missing, Agreed its missing but do I need to provide the path to a new directory everytime a register a new core or any old core'x directory will do the job? Then I copied an existing directory core0 to core2 with all its /bin and /conf and other stuffs. Then I tried to refresh the earlier page in firefox and WOW it worked. Then to confirm that the new core details has been added to solr.xml I cross checked the file and found a new entry for core2. Its working.
Now let me mention what I want to do, # I want multiple cores, true but all the core will essentially have the same schema and config as well. # I want separete index for each core so that during posting and searching I can search a specific core Now I've certain doubts about these things. 1. Do we have to create a new directory with all those /bin and /conf everytime we've to register a new core. This sounds silly and I'm pretty sure I must be wrong . There must be some way to just say that : Create this new core having the core name as ABXZ. The wiki does say the last three parameters are optinal [Wiki:Note that config ,schema & dataDir parameters are optional.] Can't we have some base schema and config file say under $solr.home [or may be somewhere else if that creates problem] and everytime we create a new core just point to those. Can someone give me direct examples for the same[the wiki does say about this but I'm not completely clear about that, some examples will do the job]. 2. Do we have to make sure that the data directory is sitting inside coreX directory, or we can put it elsewhere? Thank you very much. KK.
