Perfect, now I get it. Thanks so much! Regards,
Steve ________________________________ From: Jan H?ydahl <[email protected]> Sent: 18 May 2021 16:11 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: How does Standalone SolrCore know which cores to load when SOLR is started? In standalone, Solr will use core discovery to figure out what cores to load. Read more about it at https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_8/defining-core-properties.html In short, any sub folder below SOLR_HOME containg a core.properties file will be loaded as a core. Jan > 18. mai 2021 kl. 13:10 skrev Steve Smith <[email protected]>: > > Hi all, > > I'm new to SOLR and am struggling with this aspect. > > How does SOLR know which cores to load when it starts? > > Our SOLR_HOME var is set to "/var/solr/data". > > There were 6 cores loaded before I stopped SOLR. - (opt/solr8-8.6.2/bin/solr > stop -p 8983) > > I then started SOLR with opt/solr8-8.6.2/bin/solr start. > > When I then went to the admin UI I can now only see 5 cores loaded. > > In the /var/solr/data folder there are many other cores (test stuff / junk ) > that are not being loaded when I start SOLR. I can see all the other hero > cores that have loaded, as well as the villain core that hasn't loaded. > > SOLRCore documentation says that SOLR will automatically find any cores in or > below SOLR_HOME which in our case I believe is /var/solr/data, so I am > stumped as to why it's not loading the other junk cores, why it's loading > these hero cores, and why it isn't loading the villain core. > > I don't think I can use the UI ADD Core option as it looks to me as if it > wants to create the core whereas the core already exists. > > Can anyone help me understand what's going on? Is there something like a > master config file I am missing that lists all the cores to be loaded? > > Can I add the villain core to the SOLR instance from a command line? > > Thanks in advance, > > Steve
