Hi Eric, Solr configuration can certainly be confusing at first. And for some time after. :P
If you're running start.jar from the example folder (which is fine for testing, and I've known some people to use it for production systems) then the default solr home is example/solr. This contains solr.xml, which specifies where to find per-core configuration and data. (A core is equivalent to a collection in a simple non-sharded setup). For now, the easiest thing would be to use the default core in example/solr/collection1. Copy your solrconfig.xml and schema.xml over the ones in collection1/conf (backing up the originals for reference). Create your data directory wherever you like and symlink it into collection1. Now when you run $ java -jar start.jar in example/, you should be able to access Solr at http://localhost:8983/solr/ , and add and search for documents. Hope that helps a bit! Tom On 7 November 2013 14:50, Palmer, Eric <epal...@richmond.edu> wrote: > Sorry if this is obvious (because it isn't for me) > > I want to build a solr (4.5.1) + nutch (1.7.1) environment. I'm doing > this on amazon linux (I may put nutch on a separate server eventually). > > Please let me know if my thinking is sound or off base > > in the example folder are a lot of files and folders including the war > file and start.jar > > drwxr-xr-x cloud-scripts > drwxr-xr-x contexts > drwxr-xr-x etc > drwxr-xr-x example-DIH > drwxr-xr-x exampledocs > drwxr-xr-x example-schemaless > drwxr-xr-x lib > drwxr-xr-x logs > drwxr-xr-x multicore > -rw-r--r-- README.txt > drwxr-xr-x resources > drwxr-xr-x solr > drwxr-xr-x solr-webapp > -rw-r--r-- start.jar > drwxr-xr-x webapps > > > I am creating a separate folder for the conf and data folders (on another > disk) and placing these files in the conf file > > schema-solr.xml (from nutch) renamed to schema.solr > solrconfig.xml > > I will use the example folder and start.jar from that location. (is this > okay) > > Where do I set the collection name? > > What else do I need to do to get a basic web page indexer built. (I'll > work out the crawling later, I just want to be able to manually add some > documents and query). I'm trying to understand solr first and then will > use nutch. > > I have several books and have looked at the tutorial and other web sites. > It seems they assume that I know where to begin when creating a new > collection and customizing it. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > -- > Eric Palmer > Web Services > U of Richmond > > To report technical issues, obtain technical support or make requests for > enhancements please visit > http://web.richmond.edu/contact/technical-support.html >
