On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 09:36 +0100, Stavros Delisavas wrote: > I am using Solr for my current web-application on my server successfully. > Also I would like to be able to have one state of my development version > and one state of my production version on my server so that I can do > tests on my development-state without interference on my production-version. > What is the best-practice to achieve this or how can this be done in > general?
I highly recommend keeping development on another machine than production. Solr (and any other heavy application, really) taxes all the different resources on the system - CPU, memory & IO. A run-amok development Solr can easily influence a production Solr on the same machine. Running on the same machine is also prone to human errors: Accidental shutdown of the production server, sending test data into prod etc. If you really need to do it, run development under a different user than prod and see if it is possible to block access to the ports used by prod for the development user. - Toke Eskildsen, State and University Library, Denmark
