: 'Alternately: you can specifiy the solr.data.dir system property at run
time'
:
: should yield the exact result I'm looking for - runtime configuration of
multiple instances.
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: Thanks for the full reply.
To be clear: solr.data.dir isn't any sort of special setting -- that
systemproperty is checked because your dataDir config says to use
${solr.data.dir}. you can modify your solrconfig.xml to make (almost)
*anything* configurable at runtime...
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrConfigXml#System_property_substitution
-Hoss
