The beautiful thing about a wiki is that *anybody* can update them. It's especially useful if someone who's just struggled through the issues can write something up since the pain is still fresh <G>. Especially if you're better than I am about writing things down....
All of which leads me to ask if you're willing to volunteer. You have to create an ID, but that's all. Best Erick On Dec 5, 2007 12:05 PM, Matthew Runo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that the JNDI settings for Tomcat6 were hard to figure out. > Would someone be willing to write it up for the wiki? Since I think > most people getting started with SOLR will be using Tomcat6 (or > Jetty), it would make sense to update the docs a bit to make it easier > to figure out the proper place and way to set all this up. > > Even just a link to this thread in some archive would help. > > --Matthew > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: > > > Or, instead of messing around with the JNDI setting, simply set - > > Dsolr.solr.home=/opt/solr.... with the JVM startup parameters for > > Tomcat. Hardcoding a path in web.xml is definitely _not_ what we > > want to do. Not all containers unpack the WAR file onto disk. > > Also, consider the case of upgrading to a newer version of Solr > > after having tweaked web.xml. > > > > Erik > > > > > > On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Yousef Ourabi wrote: > > > >> Tomcat unpacks the jar into the webapps directory based off the > >> context name anyway... > >> > >> What was the original thinking behind not having solr/home set in > >> the web.xml -- seems like an easier way to deal with this. > >> > >> I would imagine most people are more familiar with setting params > >> in web.xml than manually creating Contexts for their webapp... > >> > >> In fact I would take a step further and have a default value of / > >> opt/solr (or whatever...) and if a specific user wants to change it > >> they can just edit their web.xml? > >> > >> This would simplify the documentation, instead of configure your > >> stuff in the Context -- it becomes "this is the default", copy > >> example/solr to /opt/solr (or we have a script do it) and deploy > >> the .war > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Chris Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 6:34:55 PM (GMT-0800) America/ > >> Los_Angeles > >> Subject: Re: Tomcat6 env-entry > >> > >> > >> : It works excellently in Tomcat 6. The toughest thing I had to > >> deal with is > >> : discovering that the environment variable in web.xml for solr/ > >> home is > >> : essential. If you skip that step, it won't come up. > >> > >> no, there's no reason why you should need to edit the web.xml > >> file ... the > >> solr/home property can be set in a <Context> configuration using an > >> <Environment> directive without ever opening the solr.war. See this > >> section of the tomcat docs for me details... > >> > >> > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html#Environment%20Entries > >> > >> : <env-entry> > >> : <env-entry-name>solr/home</env-entry-name> > >> : <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> > >> : <env-entry-value>F:\Tomcat-6.0.14\webapps\solr</env-entry- > >> value> > >> : </env-entry> > >> > >> > >> -Hoss > >> > > > >
