In my opinion, its never a good idea to overwrite files of a previous version with a new version.
The easiest thing would be to just deploy the solr war file into tomcat and let tomcat manage the webapp, files, etc. On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 22:39 -0400, Dan Foley wrote: > I have download the nightly snapshot of v 4.0 and would like to install it > to my tomcat install of solr 3.5 > > can i simply overwrite the current files or is there a correct method for > doing so? > > please advise.. thanks >