Thanks guys for all your help and support with this issue. I have managed to get it working.
Those sneaky pests at SWsoft hid the /WEB-INF/classes/ folder away from normal viewing but on looking at the catalina.out log file (located at /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out) I was able to see where and how they hid the xml config file. The nutch-site.xml file is located at /var/cache/tomcat5/work/PSA/domain.com/_/WEB-INF/classes/nutch-site.xml and as soon as I added the code below and restarted Tomcat I could search via the http side. <property> <name>searcher.dir</name> <value>/usr/local/nutch/crawl</value> </property> The only problem now is that if I stop and start tomcat my changes made in the nutch-site.xml file are automatically overwritten to blank data all compliments of Plesk. This however is workable for now as I'll be moving away from Plesk completely once my site is live and then the default tutorials will work. -- Regards Justin Hartman PGP Key ID: 102CC123
