Thanks, Hoss, >> you still use a separate lib directory for each solr home and symlink each jar ...
Just to make sure. you mean we can create a directory containing the shared jars, and each solr home/lib will symlink to the jar files in that directory. Right? Thanks, -Hui On 8/30/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * can we set up multiple Solr home directories within the same Solr > > instance? (I want to use the same Tomcat Solr instance to support > indexing > > and searching over multiple independent indexes.) > > yes. using JNDI you can configure multiple instances of Solr each with a > seperate solr home. the tomcat page hs more info on configuring solr > home with JNDI in tomcat... > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat > > > * If so, say I have some customized Solr plugins, ie., jar files, do I > have > > to add them to each Solr home's lib directory? ( It feels it's a bit > > redundant to add them multiple times for the same Solr instance. ) > > you could, in theory, put plugins at a "higher level" classloader used by > tomcat, but that would require loading most of hte solr/lucne code in the > sam classloader -- i don't recommend that approach, and i won't give any > advice on how to do it -- because classloader nightmares are bad enough > when you understand them in detail. > > i would recommend that even if you don't want to make multiple copies of > the jars, you still use a seperate lib directory for each solr home and > symlink each jar ... each solr instance will have it's own custom > classloader for dealing with plugins, and this approach will help protect > you from the possibility of "bad" code in any of your plugins causing > one instance of solr to affect another (ie: synchronization blocks, > singletons, global variables, etc...) > > -Hoss > -- Regards, -Hui
