To give an exanmple: While you earlier would do some thing like
Download and install Tomcat (or some other servlet container) Setup Tomcat as a service Download and unpack Solr Create a SOLR_HOME folder with correct content copy solr.war into tomcat/webapps set CATALINA_OPTS=“-Dsolr.solr.home=/path/to/home -Dsolr.x.y=z…. GC-flags etc” Setup Tomcat as a service service tomcat start You would with 6.x do: Download Solr and unpack the install-script solr/bin/install_solr_service solr-6.2.0.tgz # Install Tune /etc/default/solr.in.sh to your likings (mem, port, solr-home, Zk etc) service solr start (or bin/solr start [options]) Your client would talk to Solr on typically http://host.name:8983/solr/ as a standalone server, not as one out of many webapps on 8080. -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > 7. okt. 2016 kl. 02.32 skrev Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>: > > Treat Solr as a blackbox standalone database. Your MySQL is running > standalone, right? > > And try to go to Solr 6, if you can. 5 is not latest anymore and there had > been lots of scaling improvements in 6. > > Regards, > Alex > > On 7 Oct 2016 5:02 AM, "Renee Sun" <renee_...@mcafee.com> wrote: > >> need some general advises please... >> >> our infra is built with multiple webapps with tomcat ... the scale layer is >> archived on top of those webapps which work hand-in-hand with solr admin >> APIs / shard queries / commit or optimize / core management etc etc. >> >> While I have not get a chance to actually play with solr 5 yet, just by >> imagination, we will be facing some huge changes in our infra to be able to >> upgrade to solr 5, yes? >> >> Thanks >> Renee >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3. >> nabble.com/solr-5-leaving-tomcat-will-I-be-the-only-one- >> fearing-about-this-tp4300065.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>