-0 Hoss’s points are my view as well. 8983 is already pretty well known amongst Solr users.
~ David Smiley Freelance Apache Lucene/Solr Search Consultant/Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Chris Hostetter <[email protected]> wrote: > : Until 5.x Solr would start on whatever port of the appserver chosen, > i.e. 8983 for Jetty, 8080 for Tomcat etc. > : Now that Solr is a "standalone" app, why should we "inherit" Jetty's > default port 8983 anymore? > > last time i checked, 8983 is not "Jetty's default port" ... Jetty's > hardcoded default port is "0" (ie: listen on any port assigned by the OS) > and jetty's "sample" default (from the jetty.xml they ship to use as a > default) use port "8080" > > IIRC: 8983 was explicitly picked for Solr years ago because there weren't > really any other systems out there using it (unlike 8000, 8080, 8888, > etc...) > > : * Identity - people will immediately identify Solr by its port number. > Even IANA? > > this is pretty much already true -- and if folks really care about getting > IANA recognition, then 8983 seems like the best choice since: > 1) we already have heavy recognition for that port > 2) it's currently "unassigned" in the IANA port numbers list. > > : PS: Same goes for the default URL. We could move to toplevel now > http://localhost:8983/ > > -0 ... i don't see any downside to leaving "/solr/" in the URL, and > if/when we rip out the jetty stack completley and stop beholding to the > servlet APIs internally it > gives us flexibility if we want to start deprecating/retring things to be > able to say "All of the legacy, pre-Solr X.0, APIs use a base path of > '/solr/' and all the new hotness APIs use a base path of '/v2/'" ... or > something like that. > > ie: worry about it when we have another use for the URL path. > > > > -Hoss > http://www.lucidworks.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
