Hi Michael, Thanks for the information. Unfortunately I'm having a hard time finding any servlet containers that can serve over a unix domain socket. Also it looks like EmbeddedSolr won't work since I am not writing the application in Java (it's in Ruby on Rails and I'm using it through Sunspot).
Jason On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Michael Kuhlmann <k...@solarier.de> wrote: > On 07.08.2012 21:43, Jason Axelson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to connect to SOLR over a socket file as is possible >> with mysql? I've looked around and I get the feeling that I may be >> mi-understanding part of SOLR's architecture. >> >> Any pointers are welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> Jason > > > Hi Jason, > > not that I know of. This has nothing to do with Solr, it depends on the web > server you are using. Tomcat, Jetty and the others are using TCP/IP directly > through java.io or java.nio classes, and Solr is just one web app that is > handled by them. > > Java web servers typically run on a separate host, and in contrast to MySQL, > the local deployment is rather the exception than the standard. > > If you don't want the network overhead, than use an embedded Solr server: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/EmbeddedSolr > > Greetings, > Kuli
