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Alan Woodward commented on SOLR-5434:
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Thinking further, maybe an even nicer way to start things up would be to have a
default new-style solr.xml that can be overridden by environment variables.
Then you just tell new users to start solr up with -DzkRun
-Dsolr.solr.home=/path/to/where/I/want/data/stored, and it should Just Work.
No need to copy example directories anywhere.
> Create minimal solrcloud example directory
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>
> Key: SOLR-5434
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5434
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Alan Woodward
> Assignee: Alan Woodward
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.6, 5.0
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> The various "intro to solr cloud" pages (for example
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Getting+Started+with+SolrCloud)
> currently tell new users to use the example/ directory as a basis for
> setting up new cloud instances. These directories contain, under the default
> solr/ solr home directory, a single core, defined to point to the collection1
> collection.
> It's not at all obvious that, to change the name of your collection, you have
> to go and edit the core.properties file underneath the solr/ directory. A
> lot of users on the mailing list also seem to get confused by having to
> include bootstrap_confdir and numShards the first time they run solr, but not
> afterwards. So here's a suggestion:
> * Have a new solrcloud/ directory in the example webapp that just contains a
> solr.xml file
> * Change the startup example code to just include -Dsolr.solr.home and -DzkRun
> * Tell the user to then run zkcli to bootstrap their configuration (solr
> startup and configuration loading are kept separate)
> * Tell the users to use the collections API to create a new collection,
> naming it however they want (confignames, collection names and core names are
> all kept separate)
> This way, there's a lot less 'magic' and hidden defaults involved, and all
> the steps to get a cloud up and running (start processes, upload
> configuration, create collection) are made distinguishable.
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