On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 04:11 -0800, newBea wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> Many thanks for ur replies so far...finally i set up correct environment for
> Solr. Its working:clap:
:)
Congrats, glad you got it running.
>
> Solr Rocks!
Indeed. :)
salu2
>
> Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:16 -0800, newBea wrote:
> >> Hi Thorsten...
> >>
> >> SOrry for giving u much trouble but I need some answer regarding
> >> solr...plz
> >> help...
> >>
> >> Question1
> >> I am using tomcat 5.5.23 so for JNDI setup of solr, adding solr.xml with
> >> context fragment as below in the tomcat5.5/...catalina/localhost.
> >>
> >> <Context docBase="C:/solr.war" debug="0" crossContext="true" >
> >> <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String"
> >> value="D:/Projects/csdb/solr" override="true" />
> >> </Context>
> >>
> >> Is it the correct way of doing it?
> >
> > Yes as I understand the wiki page.
> >
> >> Or do I need to add context fragment in
> >> the server.xml of tomcat5.5?
> >>
> >> Question2
> >> I am starting solr server using start.jar from another location on C:
> >> drive...whereas my home location indicated on D: drive. Is it the root
> >> coz I
> >> am not getting the search result?
> >
> > Hmm, as I understand it you are starting two instance of solr! One as a
> > tomcat and the other as jetty. Why do you want that? If you have solr on
> > tomcat you do not need the jetty anymore. I does make 0 sense under
> > normal circumstances to do this.
> >
> >>
> >> Question3
> >> I have added parameter as <dataDir>C:\solr\data</dataDir> in
> >> solrconfig.xml...
> >
> > That seems to be wrong. It should read <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:C:\solr
> > \dat}</dataDir> but I am not using windows so I am not sure whether you
> > may need to escape the path.
> >
> > salu2
> >
> >> but the indexes are not getting stored there...indexes for
> >> search are getting stored in the default dir of solr...any suggestions
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance...
> >>
> >>
> >> Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 05:04 -0800, newBea wrote:
> >> >> I havnt used luke.xsl. Ya but the link provided by u gives me "Solr
> >> Luke
> >> >> Request Handler Response"...
> >> >>
> >> >> <uniquekey> is simple string as: csid
> >> >
> >> > So you have:
> >> > <uniqueKey>csid</uniqueKey>
> >> >
> >> > and
> >> > <field name="csid" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"
> >> > required="true" />
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> till now I am updating docs thru command prompt as : post.jar *.xml
> >> >> http://localhost:8983/update
> >> >
> >> > how do the docs look like? I mean since you changed the sample config
> >> > you send changed documents as well, right? How do they look?
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I am not clear on how do I post xml docs
> >> >
> >> > Well like you said, with the post.jar and then you will send your
> >> > modified docs but there are many ways to trigger an add command to
> >> solr.
> >> >
> >> >> or wud xml docs be posted while I
> >> >> request solr thru tomcat at the time of searching text...
> >> >
> >> > To search text from tomcat you will need to have a servlet or something
> >> > similar that contacts the solr server for the search result and the
> >> > handle the response (e.g. apply custom xsl to the results).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> This manually procedure when I update the xml docs on exampledocs
> >> folder
> >> >> inside distribution package restrict it to exampledocs itself
> >> >
> >> > No, either copy the jar to the folder where you have your documents or
> >> > add it to the PATH.
> >> >
> >> >> ...I am not
> >> >> getting a way where my sites text get searched by solr...Do I need to
> >> >> copy
> >> >> start.jar and relevant folders in my working directory for web
> >> >> application.
> >> >
> >> > Hmm, it seems that you not have understood the second paragraph of
> >> > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/mySolr
> >> >
> >> > "Typically it's not recommended to have your front end users/clients
> >> > hitting Solr directly as part of an HTML form submit ... the more
> >> > conventional way to think of it is that Solr is a backend service,
> >> which
> >> > your application can talk to over HTTP ..."
> >> >
> >> > Meaning you have two different server running. Alternatively you can
> >> run
> >> > solr in the same tomcat as you application. If you follow SolrTomcat
> >> > from the wiki it will be install as "solr" servlet. Your application
> >> > will then communicate with this serlvet.
> >> >
> >> > salu2
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> any help?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thorsten Scherler-3 wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 03:42 -0800, newBea wrote:
> >> >> >> Hi Thorsten,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I have my application running on 8080 port with tomcat 5.5.23....I
> >> am
> >> >> >> starting solr on port 8983 with jetty server using command "java
> >> -jar
> >> >> >> start.jar".
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Both the server gets started...now any search I make on tomcat
> >> >> >> application
> >> >> >> is interacting with solr very well. The problem is "schema.xml" and
> >> >> >> "solrconfig.xml" in the conf directory are default one. But after
> >> >> adding
> >> >> >> customized schema name parameter and required fields, solr is not
> >> >> working
> >> >> >> as
> >> >> >> required.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Can you post the modification you made to both files?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Customized code for parsing the xml generated from solr is working
> >> >> >> fine...but it is unable to find the uniquekey field which we set
> >> for
> >> >> all
> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> documents in the schema document....and thus result is 0 means
> >> >> nothing.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hmm, what is your update command and your unique key?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We would need to see this modification to tell you what may be
> >> wrong.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Did you try
> >> http://YOUR_HOST:8983/solr/admin/luke?wt=xslt&tr=luke.xsl
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What does this gives?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > salu2
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> I am not able to find the solution for this one... any suggestions
> >> wud
> >> >> be
> >> >> >> appreciated...thanks in advance.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Thorsten Scherler-3 wrote:
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 00:06 -0800, newBea wrote:
> >> >> >> >> hi
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> I am new to solr/lucene...I have installed solr nightly
> >> >> version..its
> >> >> >> >> working
> >> >> >> >> very fine.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> But it is working for the exampledocs present in the example
> >> folder
> >> >> of
> >> >> >> >> the
> >> >> >> >> nightly version of solr. I need solr to work for my current web
> >> >> >> >> application...I am using tomcat5.5.23 for the
> >> >> >> >> application(Windows)...using
> >> >> >> >> jetty to start solr from outside of the webapps folder.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Is there any way to start the jetty using tomcat?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Help would be appreciated...
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > some links that you may get started:
> >> >> >> > http://wiki.apache.org/solr
> >> >> >> > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/mySolr
> >> >> >> > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > salu2
> >> >> >> > --
> >> >> >> > Thorsten Scherler
> >> >> >> thorsten.at.apache.org
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> >> >> >>
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