Standalone pages

2014-10-09 Thread phiroc
Hello, I am using currently the Velocity templates that come with the example provided with SOLR, in Tomcat 7. I would like to add a Velocity template called test.vm, in the example/solr/mycollection directory, to display an HTML page containing an image. Unfortunately, the following URL

Re: Standalone pages

2014-10-09 Thread Erik Hatcher
Philiippe - I just noticed you posted this to the velocity user list. How Solr uses Velocity is perhaps a bit niche/different, so best to ask over on the Solr user list for future questions about the Solr/Velocity integration. But I’m on both lists :) Erik On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:19

Re: Standalone pages

2014-10-09 Thread phiroc
Hi Erik, thank you for your reply. However, come to think of it, my question is not SOLR-specific. I would like to know if it is possible to create lightweight Web pages with Velocity, in Tomcat, without resorting to servlets, JSP, etc. In other words, can you add a Velocity template to a

RE: Standalone pages

2014-10-09 Thread Logan Stinger
It depends on the contents of your velocity file. If your velocity file contains no variables that need replaced by the velocity engine and is simply an html page then the answer is yes. You simply need to place the file in a directory that is accessible via url. I'm assuming you have an

Re: Standalone pages

2014-10-09 Thread Nathan Bubna
The VelocityTools project provides several servlets that make it easy to serve up dynamic Velocity pages. http://velocity.apache.org/tools/devel/ On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Logan Stinger lstin...@bluelid.com wrote: It depends on the contents of your velocity file. If your velocity file

Re: Standalone pages

2014-10-09 Thread Erik Hatcher
Interestingly, if you don’t even need to add a template to the server (filesystem) at all with Solr’s VelocityResponseWriter: http://localhost:8983/solr/select?wt=velocityv.template=tv.template.t=template%20from%20thin%20air ;) But even with /browse, you can override bits and pieces