Hi,
and thanks for your hints. I've done some additional research and found
that there doesn't really seem to be any possibility of an embedded solr
server in solrpy.
Jetty, then. It'd all be probably kinda easy if it weren't for the way
things are unbundled in debian. I've recently posted to the debian-java
ML, but received no replay -- maybe because it's so solr-specific (so,
sorry for cross-posting here). It's kinda long as I've tried to capture
the issues I've run into so far. I'd really appreciate any help -- maybe
there are some solr ninjas here that know how to work around the
problems I'm experiencing.
> [...]
> The tests are basically a python file and a corresponding schema.xml.
> Normally, it's suggested to just use solr's example directory (with
> integrated jetty) and replace its schema.xml with the one provided by
> solrpy, and then run it via java -jar start.jar
>
> ----
>
> On debian however, solr and jetty are unbundled (for good reason), and
i
> can't of course just replace solr's example schema.xml (which gets
> installed to /etc/solr/conf).
>
> I've started by looking for ways to run solr on jetty as non-root by
> basically running
>
> java -jar /usr/share/jetty/start.jar
>
> But that is highly non-trivial, as jetty's configuration files seem to
> point to solr's in a pretty hardcoded way.
>
> I was able to change jetty's logs and home location by
>
> java -jar -Djetty.home=/usr/share/jetty
>
-Djetty.logs=/home/me/solr/logs /usr/share/jetty/start.jar /etc/jetty/jetty.xml
>
> I can run jetty as a non-root user by issuing that command from
> within /usr/share/jetty, but it fails to start solr, as I haven't yet
> found a way to make solr use another datadir than /var/lib/solr/data
--
> which is hardcoded in /etc/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml.
>
> I think I might be able to change the latter by having the solr-common
> package change its /etc/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml to read
>
> <dataDir>${solr.data.dir}</dataDir>
>
> instead of
>
> <dataDir>/var/lib/solr/data</dataDir>
>
> and put a solrcore.properties into solr.home
>
> #solrcore.properties
> data.dir=/data/solrindex
>
> ( as seen over at
>
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrConfigXml#System_property_substitution )
> -- or just pass -Dsolr.data.dir=/data/dir from within some startup
> script.
>
> Would such a modification of solr-common have any chance to be
accepted
> by the java team?
>
> ---
>
> With schema.xml, I'm rather clueless. -Dsolr.solr.home=/home/me/solr/
> doesn't do the trick as this stuff is also hardcoded
> (in /usr/share/solr/WEB-INF/jetty-web.xml -- which is part of
> solr-jetty). Actually, that's the only purpose of jetty-web.xml, which
> is evaluated because of jetty's context settings (I think). Moreover,
> I'm trying not to duplicate the other contents of that directory, so
> setting solr.solr.home to a different location might not be what I
want
> at all.
>
> I think my most relevant questions are:
> 1. Is anyone able to successfully run jetty with solr
> via /usr/share/jetty/start.jar as a non-root user (ideally from within
> any directory, not just from within /usr/share/jetty)? If yes: how?
> 2. How can I make solr use my schema.xml instead of the one installed?
> 3. I haven't tried the whole thing in tomcat yet, so does anyone know
if
> it would be easier there -- maybe because configuration files aren't
> that much entangled and hardcoded there? (In the end, I might have to
do
> the whole thing also for tomcat anyway as I'm build-depending on
> solr-jetty | solr-tomcat which conflict each other).
>
> I'm kinda desperate with the load of configuration files, so I'd
really
> appreciate any help that gets me closer to get this thing done.
> Kind regards
> Bernhard
Am Donnerstag, den 04.11.2010, 23:57 +0100 schrieb Peter Karich:
> Hi,
>
> don't know if the python package provides one but solrj offers to start
> solr embedded (|EmbeddedSolrServer|) and
> setting up different schema + config is possible. for this see:
> https://karussell.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/how-to-test-apache-solrj/
>
> if you need an 'external solr' (via jetty and java -jar start.jar) while
> tests running see this:
> http://java.dzone.com/articles/getting-know-solr
>
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm pretty much of a Solr newbie currently packaging solrpy for Debian;
> > see
> > http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/python-modules/packages/python-solrpy/trunk/
> >
> > In order to run solrpy's supplied tests at build time, I'd need Solr to
> > know about the schema.xml that comes with the tests.
> > Can anyone tell me how do that properly? I'd basically need Solr to
> > temporarily recognize that schema.xml without permanently installing it
> > -- is there any way to do this, eg via environment variables?
> >
> > TIA
> > Bernhard Reiter
> >
>
