Tim, If localhost doesn't work for some reason, you can always use 127.0.0.1 . That "localhost" is typically defined in /etc/hosts .
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Garafola Timothy <timgaraf...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:24:43 PM > Subject: solr_hostname in scripts.conf > > I've a question. Is it safe to use 'localhost' as solr_hostname in > scripts.conf? > > -- > -Tim