On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM, ahammad <ahmed.ham...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've never used Solr before, but I believe that it will suit my current > needs with indexing information from a database. > > I downloaded and extracted Solr 1.3 to play around with it. I've been > looking at the following tutorials: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-solr-update/index.html > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-solr-update/index.html > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler > > There are a few things I don't understand. For example, the IBM article > sometimes refers to directories that aren't there, or a little different > from what I have in my extracted copy of Solr (ie > solr-dw/rss/conf/solrconfig.xml). I tried to follow the steps as best I can, > but as soon as I put the following in solrconfig.xml, the whole thing > breaks: > > <requestHandler name="/dataimport" > class="org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler"> > <lst name="defaults"> > <str name="config">rss-data-config.xml</str> > </lst> > </requestHandler> > > Obviously I replace with my own info...One thing I don't quite get is the > data-config.xml file. What exactly is it? I've seen examples of what it > contains but since I don't know enough, I couldn't really adjust it. In any > case, this is the error I get, which may be because of a misconfigured > data-config.xml... the data-config.xml describes how to fetch data from various data sources and index them into Solr.
The stacktrace says that your xml is invalid. The best bet is to take one of the sample dataconfig xml files and make changes. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/example/example-DIH/solr/db/conf/db-data-config.xml?revision=691151&view=markup http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/example/example-DIH/solr/rss/conf/rss-data-config.xml?revision=691151&view=markup > > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandlerException: Exception > occurred while initializing context at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.loadDataConfig(DataImporter.java:165) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.<init>(DataImporter.java:99) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImportHandler.inform(DataImportHandler.java:96) > at > org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.inform(SolrResourceLoader.java:388) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:571) at > org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:122) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:69) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:78) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3635) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:760) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740) > at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:831) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:720) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1150) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) > at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at > java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) Caused by: > org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "document" must be > terminated by the matching end-tag "</document>". at > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown > Source) at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.loadDataConfig(DataImporter.java:153) > > > It's unclear to me what I need to be using, as in what directories/files I > need to implement this. Can someone please point me in the right direction? > > BTW, I'm using Tomcat 5.5 because the prepackaged Jetty simply doesn't work > for me. It shows that it "started" in the command line, but it hangs, and > doesn't actually work when I try to hit the Solr admin page (page not found > type error). Jetty itself does start but the project doesn't seem to > deploy... > > I apologize for the long post and if I didn't provide as much information as > I should. Let me know if you need clarification with anything I said. > > Thank you very much. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Using-Solr-to-index-a-database-tp23136944p23136944.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- --Noble Paul
