Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I am trying to get Solr installed in Tomcat, and having trouble. I am trying to use the instructions at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat as a guide. Trying to start with the example Solr from the Solr distro. Tried using the Tried with both a binary distro with existing solr.war, and

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Rowe
Hi Jonathan, Did you find http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3016808/tomcat-startup-logs-severe-error-filterstart-how-to-get-a-stack-trace ? Steve On May 30, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I am trying to get Solr installed in Tomcat, and having trouble. I am

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Usually tomcat errors with Solr 4.3 happen due to uncopied logging libraries. I would check if installing Solr 4.2.1 works and/or copy additional libraries in (search mailing list for this issue). However, I am not entirely sure that's the case here. It feels that perhaps the definition of the

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Shawn Heisey
I am trying to get Solr installed in Tomcat, and having trouble. When I start up tomcat, I get in the Tomcat log: INFO: Deploying web application archive solr.war May 29, 2013 3:59:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error filterStart May 29, 2013 3:59:40 PM

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Thanks! I guess I should have asked on-list BEFORE wasting 4 hours fighting with it myself, but I was trying to be a good user and do my homework! Oh well. Off to the logging instructions, hope I can figure them out -- if you could update the tomcat instructions with the simplest possible

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I'm going to add a note to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrLogging , with the Tomcat sample Error filterStart error, as an example of something you might see if you have not set up logging. Then at least in the future, googling solr tomcat error filterStart might lead someone to the clue that

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 5/30/2013 9:26 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Thanks! I guess I should have asked on-list BEFORE wasting 4 hours fighting with it myself, but I was trying to be a good user and do my homework! Oh well. Off to the logging instructions, hope I can figure them out -- if you could update the

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Okay, sadly, i still can't get this to work. Following the instructions at: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrLogging#Using_the_example_logging_setup_in_containers_other_than_Jetty I copied solr/example/lib/ext/*.jar into my tomcat's ./lib, and copied solr/example/resources/log4j.properties

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 5/30/2013 1:19 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Okay, sadly, i still can't get this to work. Following the instructions at: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrLogging#Using_the_example_logging_setup_in_containers_other_than_Jetty I copied solr/example/lib/ext/*.jar into my tomcat's ./lib, and

Re: Solr 4.3, Tomcat, Error filterStart

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Okay, for posterity: I did manage to get it working. It WAS lack of the logging files. First, the only way I could manage to get Tomcat6 to log an actual stacktrace for the Error filterStart was to _delete_ my CATALINA_HOME/conf/logging.properties file. Apparently without this file at all,