You can actually specify a dataDir in the Collection CREATE API by passing the property.dataDir=/your/data/dir parameter.
It is not very well documented but it is possible. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API#CollectionsAPI-api1 On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:28 AM, cpalm <cpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I did to finally get this working was remove the > Catalina/localhost/solr.xml which was allowing the binary to be run from a > different location, > I made sure the solr.solr.home=/ebs-data/solr/conf was set to the file > mount > I wanted and I then had > to remove the Dsolr.data.dir=/ebs-data/solr/data " argument. > Once I did that, I can get collections to create successfully from the > collections api which now show up under /ebs-data/solr/conf. > > In short it seems that the solr.data.dir argument can't be used with the > collections API. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SOLR-4-8-Collections-API-Create-Collection-Fails-on-Tomcat-tp4137456p4137506.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
