: Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:38 -0500 : From: "Mukerjee, Neiloy (Neil)" : Subject: RE: Using The Tomcat Container : : I followed the steps detailed in this tutorial: : http://justin-hayes.com/2009-04-08/installing-apache-tomcat-6-and-solr-nightly-on-ubuntu-804 : : When I get to the point at which I should be able to see the Solr admin : page, my browser displays the following: : HTTP Status 404 - /solr/admin : type Status report : message /solr/admin : description The requested resource (/solr/admin) is not available. : Apache Tomcat/5.5 : : This is after having used Tomcat 6 throughout the process, which leads : me to believe that the fact that Tomcat 5.5 is already installed is : somehow resulting in this error. When I posed the issue of 5.5 vs. 6 on : the Tomcat mailing list, this belief was reinforced.
If you followed steps to install Tomcat 6, and yet you get an error msg from tomcat 5.5 then your problem probably doesn't have anything to do with solr. i suspect that tomcat 5.5 is already running on your system (probably all the time, from a .deb install) on the port you are trying to use, and your new (manual) install of tomcat 6 either isn't running (because it can't bind to the port) or is running on a different port then you think. I bet if you "shutdown.sh" your tomcat 6 port, you'll still see that error message coming from your tomcat 5.5 instance. in short: the issue isn't htat solr would work *better* on 5.5 then on 6; the issue is that you already have 5.5 running and it is either confusing you or causing problems when you try to use 6. so perhaps you shouldn't bother with tomat 6, and instead figure out where on your box tomcat 5.5 lives, and configure it to know about solr? -Hoss
