On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM, KK <dioxide.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much Paul. The pictorial explanation was very helpful, made
> everything clear. Thank you again.
> AFAIU, I can put my existing schema.xml and solrconfig.xml under conf/. I
> assume you also meant passing the paths to common schema and solrconfig.xml
> when registering a new core? My earlier try gave me some errors when I tried
> to do the same. I'll start afresh and let you know.
nope the instanceDir is the only attribute you need to pass while
creating the core
>
> Thank you,
> KK.
>
> 2009/5/19 Noble Paul നോബിള് नोब्ळ् <noble.p...@corp.aol.com>
>
>> forget about the default setup that comes w/ the example.
>>
>> say you have the following structure
>> /data/solr/home/
>> solr.xml
>> conf/
>> schema.xml
>> solrconfig.xml
>> data/
>> /c1/
>> index
>> /c2/
>> index
>> /c3/
>> index
>>
>> * your solr.solr.home is /data/solr/home
>> * your common instanceDir will be /data/solr/home/ again. pass this
>> parameter whenever you create a new core.
>> * the conf dir contains the common files required for each core.
>> * in your common solrconfig.xml keep a tag
>> <dataDir>/data/solr/home/data/${solr.core.name}</dataDir> .(my
>> previous mail had a mistake
>> *assume your core names are c1,c2,c3 then solr will automatically
>> create a structure as described above. (no need to create the dirs c1
>> or c2 or c3)
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, KK <dioxide.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks Paul.
>> >
>> > But I'm a bit confused. I've some questions.
>> > # As you said I should have a base core instance directory containing the
>> > conf directory, solrconfig.xml and schema.xml. Are you Before continuing
>> > further I would like to know that the schema and solrconfig files placed
>> > under the example core0/conf [or core1/conf] look like stripped down
>> version
>> > of what was available in base solrconfig and schema. So I tried replacing
>> > the stripped down files with the base ones [commenting out the data
>> > directory tag, as I'm using solr.xml @solr.home] for multicore. After
>> > restarting tomcat, surprisingly the core with replaced files didn't show
>> up
>> > in the solr welcome page [http://localhost/solr] but the other one was
>> there
>> > and I moved around all the admin pages and others. If we are going to
>> make
>> > use of this stripped down schema and config files then what about all
>> those
>> > things that were mentioned in the base file[I see a lot of handlers,
>> filter
>> > factories and many many things], how are we going to make sure that they
>> get
>> > loaded when solr wakes up. Or the stripped down files are good enough. I
>> > need proper guidance on this as I'm still learning to make use of this
>> > wonderful tool called Solr. Thank you Solr guys.
>> >
>> > # You said that I can put the data directory tag things in the
>> > solrconfig.xml for solr1.3. I agree but where is the file. Are you
>> talking
>> > about the stripped down solrconfig. If yes then this doesnot have any
>> data
>> > directory entry but the base solrconf file has this entry, though. If you
>> > meant adding the entry in the stripped one, do confirm me. I'll give it a
>> > try.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > KK.
>> >
>> > 2009/5/19 Noble Paul നോബിള് नोब्ळ् <noble.p...@corp.aol.com>
>> >
>> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, KK <dioxide.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > 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
>> >> > $solr.home [or may be somewhere else if that creates problem] and
>> >> everytime
>> >> > we create a new core just point to those. Can someone give me direct
>> >> > examples for the same[the wiki does say about this but I'm not
>> completely
>> >> > clear about that, some examples will do the job].
>> >> > 2. Do we have to make sure that the data directory is sitting inside
>> >> coreX
>> >> > directory, or we can put it elsewhere?
>> >>
>> >> you don't have to create conf dir and schema.xml and solrconfig.xml
>> >> for each core separately. keep one instance dir where you have the
>> >> conf dir and its contents. pass the instanceDir when you create a new
>> >> core.
>> >>
>> >> if you are using 1.3
>> >> in the solrconfig.xml , keep the datadir as follows
>> >>
>> >> <dataDir>/data/solr/${core.name}</dataDir>
>> >>
>> >> each core will automatically have a diffferent dataDir
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Thank you very much.
>> >> > KK.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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