This might also be useful, instructions for installing Solr standalone on Tomcat. On Step 3 of the instructions, you could try to copy your current Solr config from ColdFusion (dig around to find it) into the relevant place.
http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk/2010/12/apache-solr-part-ii-installing-solr.html If you don't mind running the native CF Solr instance though it may not be worth going through this. On 22 July 2011 15:48, Dominic Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it is. You can change the location of the Solr server in the > administrator very easily - it defaults to localhost:8983 but you can > have your 8 servers point at a single server by changing that entry. > This is very easy to do. > > Solr also supports collection replication - you can have one master > collection and perhaps 8 slaves that will be poll for updates - put a > load balancer in front of the slaves and you have an independently > load balanced Solr cluster. This will require customizing the Solr > config files for each of your collections (not possible through > ColdFusion directly, but ColdFusion should continue to work). The > customization isn't too difficult, just needs looking in the right > place for documentation, etc. > > HTH > > Dominic > > > On 22 July 2011 13:41, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> We have 8 load balanced CF servers running the same site, all of which need >> to call the same Solr collection for a search page. Rather than creating >> the collection across each of the servers, is there a way to just create >> the collection on 1 server and have the other 7 access it? If so, is it >> recommended and what would be involved in doing something like this? >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346308 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
