Mark, Thanks for your feedback. Making Solr handy is important for us. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Mark Fenbers <mark.fenb...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> Chris, > > The document "Uploading Structured Data Store Data with the Data Import > Handler" has a number of references to solrconfig.xml, starting on Page 2 > and continuing on page 3 in the section "Configuring solrconfig.xml". It > also is mentioned on Page 5 in the "Property Writer" and the "Data Sources" > sections. And other places in this document as well. > > The solrconfig.xml file is also referenced (without a path) in the "Solr > Quick Start" document, in the Design Overview section and other sections as > well. None of these references suggests the location of the solrconfig.xml > file. Doing a "find . -name solrconfig.xml" from the Solr home directory > reveals about a dozen or so of these files in various subdirectories. > Thus, my confusion as to which one I need to customize... > Here I can only suggest to get into SolrAdmin, pick a particular core, and find Instance directory on Overview tab. Here is the directory, which you can run find for solrconfig.xml on. I just wonder what exactly we can contribute into the guide? We have https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Configuring+solrconfig.xml The solrconfig.xml file is located in the conf/ directory for each collection. > > I feel ready to graduate from the examples in "Solr Quick Start" document, > e.g., using bin/solr -e dih and have fed in existing files on disk. The > tutorial was *excellent* for this part. But now I want to build a "real" > index using *my own* data from a database. In doing this, I find the > coaching in the tutorial to be rather absent. For example, I haven't read > in any of the documents I have found so far an explanation of why one might > want to use more than one Solr node and more than one shard, or what the > advantages are of using Solr in cloud mode vs stand-alone mode. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/SolrCloud ..., these capabilities provide distributed indexing and search capabilities, supporting the following features: - ... - *Automatic load balancing and fail-over for queries* > As a result, I had to improvise/guess/trial-and-error. I did manage to > configure my own data source and changed my queries to apply to my own > data, but I did something wrong somewhere in solrconfig.xml because I get > errors when running, now. I solved some of them by copying the *.jar files > from the ./dist directory to the solr/lib directory (a tip I found when I > googled the error message), but that only helped to a certain point. > > I will post more specific questions about my issues when I have a chance > to re-investigate that (hopefully later today). > > I have *not* found specific Java code examples using Solr yet, but I > haven't exhausted exploring the Solr website yet. Hopefully, I'll find > some examples using Solr in Java code... > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Using+SolrJ I think the essential parts are covered there. > > Mark > > > On 9/2/2015 9:51 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: > >> : various $HOME/solr-5.3.0 subdirectories. The documents/tutorials say >> to edit >> : the solrconfig.xml file for various configuration details, but they >> never say >> : which one of these dozen to edit. Moreover, I cannot determine which >> version >> >> can you please give us a specific examples (ie: urls, page numbers & >> version of the ref guide, etc...) of documentation that tell you to edit >> the solrconfig.xml w/o being explicit about where to to find it so that we >> can fix the docs? >> >> FWIW: The official "Quick Start" tutorial does not mention editing >> solrconfig.xml at all... >> >> http://lucene.apache.org/solr/quickstart.html >> >> >> >> -Hoss >> http://www.lucidworks.com/ >> >> > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev Principal Engineer, Grid Dynamics <http://www.griddynamics.com> <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com>
