On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : + > : + ==== Setting Solr Home from web.xml of solr web app ==== > > 1) is this really Tomcat specific? I thought this could be done with any > servlet container? > > 2) while this is another way to specify the Solr Home using JNDI, It > doesn't seem right to classify this as "Configuring" because it requires > people to muck with the war ... which makes upgrading harder. >
FWIW, Tomcat *does* support mechanisms to configure JNDI resources (including the Solr Home setting) *without* modifying the WAR file itself. Indeed, that was really the motivation behind having JNDI resources in the first place. Two easy approaches: * Define the <Context> element, including nested resource settings for JNDI) in Tomcat's server.xml file. This isn't deploy-on-demand, but is perfectly reasonable for a production environment. * Using the manager app, deploy a context.xml file (including pointers to the war and the JNDI settings) instead of deploying a war directly. See the manager webapp docs for more info. > i would prefer to keep this info off the wiki, or move it somewhere where > it's more clear that it's only for people who really wnat to "HACK" on the > solr war. (commented out in the web.xml like "path-prefix" perhaps?) > So you want to *hide* information that some users will find useful? That doesn't seem very user friendly :-). > Either way, i'm moving the info within SolrTomcat for the time being ... > it was inserted in between an example context file and the notes about the > example. > > > > > -Hoss > > Craig McClanahan
