Hello, I'm a Solr newb. I've been poking around for several days on my own test instance, and also online at the info available. But one thing just isn't jiving and I can't put my finger on why. I've searched many many times but I don't see what I'm looking for, so I'm thinking perhaps I have a fundamental semantic misunderstanding of something somewhere. Everywhere I read, everyone talks about schema.xml and how important is. I fully get what it's for but I don't get where it is, how it's used (by me), how I edit it, and how I create new indexes once I've edited it.
I've installed, and am successfully running, solr 5.0.0 on Linux. I've followed the widely recommended-by-all quick start at: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/quickstart.html. I get through it fine, I post a bunch of stuff, I use the web UI to query for, and see, data I would expect to see. Should I now have a schema.xml file somewhere that is somehow connected to my new index? If so, where is it? Was it present from install or did it get created when I made my first core (bin/solr create -c ati_docs)? [root@machine solr-5.0.0]# find -name schema.xml ./example/example-DIH/solr/tika/conf/schema.xml ./example/example-DIH/solr/rss/conf/schema.xml ./example/example-DIH/solr/solr/conf/schema.xml ./example/example-DIH/solr/db/conf/schema.xml ./example/example-DIH/solr/mail/conf/schema.xml ./server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf/schema.xml ./server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/schema.xml [root@machine solr-5.0.0]# Is it the one in /configsets/basic_configs/conf? Is that the "default" one? If I want to 'modify' schema.xml to do some different indexing/analyzing, how do I start? Make a copy of that schema.xml, move it somewhere else and modify it? If so, how do I create a new index using this schema.xml? Or am I running in "schemaless" mode? I don't think I am because it appears that I would have to specifically state this as a command line parameter, i.e. bin/solr start -e schemaless What fundamentals am I missing? I'm coming to Solr from Elasticsearch, and I've already recognized some differences. Is my ES background clouding my grasp of Solr fundamentals? Thanks for any help. Mark Bramer | Technical Team Lead, DC Services Esri | 8615 Westwood Center Dr | Vienna, VA 22182 | USA T 703 506 9515 x8017 | mbra...@esri.com<mailto:mbra...@esri.com> | esri.com
