Thanks Shalin. Any ideas on a workaround in the mean time? I suppose I could set the instanceDir property to the data directory rather than the common directory, then set the config and schema explicitly.
Mark On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a known issue. I'll try to give a patch soon. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-883 > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Mark Ferguson > <mark.a.fergu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to set up a multi-core environment in which I share a single > > conf folder. I am following the instructions described in this thread: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/solr-user@lucene.apache.org/msg16954.html > > > > In solrconfig.xml, I am setting dataDir to /srv/solr/cores/data/${ > > solr.core.name}. > > > > It works well when using existing cores, but when I try to create a core > > dynamically via the core admin web interface, it gives me an error > message: > > > > HTTP Status 500 - No system property or default value specified for > > solr.core.name > > > > To create the core I am entering the following url: > > > > > http://localhost:8080/solrcore/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=p5&instanceDir= > > . > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >
