In answer to my own question (with help from steffkes in IRC): Solr doesn't allow for proxy configuration, however, you can configure the proxy used by the JVM, and Solr uses the 'SystemDefaultHttpClient', i.e.
java -jar start.jar\ -Dhttp.proxyHost=our.proxy.boxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 Cheers, Dan. On 2 October 2013 12:32, Dan Bolser <dbol...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running my Solr server on a box which can only see 'the web' via > an http proxy. For most applications it's as simple as setting > http_proxy in the shell environment to get them to see the 'the web'. > However, this isn't working for Solr. > > The reason this is an issue is because my Solr server is configured to > perform a sharded query across multiple sites on the web, i.e. I have > this in my solrconfig.xml: > > <requestHandler name="pinkPony" class="solr.SearchHandler" > default="true" startup="lazy"> > <lst name="defaults"> > ... > <!-- Add our shard servers... --> > <str > name="shards">site.out.there/solr/core,etc.like.this/solr/core</str> > <!-- Print a summary of results per shard --> > <str name="shards.info">true</str> > .... > > When I try to run a query against my server running on this box, I get > the following errors: > "error":"org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to > http://sites.out.there refused", > "trace":"... > > > Can I get Solr to use the http proxy, or am I stuck? > > > Cheers, > Dan.
