I see.. Try to use <env-entry>...</env-entry> in web.xml.
Regards, Ingar On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Aleksander Akerø <solraleksan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, it's got all to do with how we have decided the rest of our deployment > environment. So the point is basicly that there should be no configurations > to the tomcat because the webapp should know all it's settings and could > basicly be deployed to whatever tomcat without configuration. Also there > should be no configuration done outside the webapp. > > That is basicly the rule that I have to live by, and I'm very thankful for > your solution here but a tomcat configuration is out of the question. > I was hoping there was some way to set this via mavens pom.xml or something > like that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ingar Hov [mailto:ingar....@gmail.com] > Sent: 28. mars 2012 18:48 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Build solr with Maven > > Is there any good reason for keeping solr_home within the webapp? > > It should work, but I would not recommend it. Have you configured solr_home > somewhere? > One way in Tomcat is to do something like this: > > -- > <Context...> > <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" > value="[your_solr_home]" override="true"/> </Context> > -- > > in either: $tomcat_home/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml or in > $tomcat_home/conf/server xml. > > A better solution would probably be a maven project, but with two modules. > This way you could build the modules together or individually. Then you can > make adjustments to the config and reload core's at will, a feature you > would lose with keeping solr_home within the webapp. > > Regards, > Ingar > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Aleksander Akerø <solraleksan...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi >> >> >> >> My company has just decided to use maven to build new projects, which >> then includes building solr with maven too. >> >> But then it has been decided that solr_home also should be installed >> within the webapp someplace. But now I have got the problem that solr >> can’t find the config files and so on. I have come across some posts >> here and there which says that solr_home should not be placed within the > webapp. >> >> Is that correct? If so, what are the reasons for it, and should it not >> work at all? >> >> >> >> Aleksander Akerø >> >
