This is very helpful. Thanks a lot, Shaun and Dikchant! So in default single-core situation, the index would live in data/index, correct?
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 11/30/2012 10:11 PM, Joe Zhang wrote: > >> May I ask: how to set up multiple indexes, and specify which index to send >> the docs to at indexing time, and later on, how to specify which index to >> work with? >> >> A related question: what is the storage location and structure of solr >> indexes? >> > When you index or query data, you'll use a base URL specific to the index > (core). Everything goes through that base URL, which includes the name of > the core: > > http://server:port/solr/**corename > > The file called solr.xml tells Solr about multiple cores.Each core has an > instanceDir and a dataDir. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/**CoreAdmin<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin> > > In the dataDir, Solr will create an index dir, which contains the Lucene > index. Here are the file formats for recent versions: > > http://lucene.apache.org/core/**4_0_0/core/org/apache/lucene/** > codecs/lucene40/package-**summary.html<http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_0_0/core/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/package-summary.html> > http://lucene.apache.org/core/**3_6_1/fileformats.html<http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_1/fileformats.html> > http://lucene.apache.org/core/**old_versioned_docs/versions/3_** > 5_0/fileformats.html<http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_5_0/fileformats.html> > > Thanks, > Shawn > >