For the second question, do the instructions here help? http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat
I suspect your SOLR instance doesn't know where to find the SOLR config files. So a severe error, indeed. It can't find them at all <G>. WARNING: I'm *really* not a tomcat expert, and the instructions at the URL are for Tomcat 6x. But they might give you a clue if you're reasonable tomcat-savvy. HTH Erick On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jill Han <jill....@alverno.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded solr -1.4.0 to my computer, C:\apache-solr-1.4.0. > > 1. I followed the instruction to run the sample, java -jar > start.jar at C:\apache-solr-1.4.0\example > > And then go to http://localhost:8983/solr/admin, however, I got > > > HTTP ERROR: 404 > > NOT_FOUND > > RequestURI=/solr/admin > > Powered by jetty:// <http://jetty.mortbay.org> > > Did I miss something? > > 2. Since I can't get sample run, I tried to run it on tomcat > server(5.5) directly as > > a. Copy/paste apache-solr-1.4.0.war to C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps, > > b. Go to http://localhost:8080/apache-solr-1.4.0/ > > The error message is" HTTP Status 500 - Severe errors in solr > configuration.." > > 3. How to configure it on tomcat server? > > Your help is appreciated very much as always, > > Jill > > > > > >
