There is no need to restart the server. You can make Tomcat reload the new index by simply touching the web.xml file present in webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF
like touch /opt/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml On 5/27/07, Enzo Michelangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Manoharam Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:23 PM > > > After I create the crawldb after running bin/nutch crawl, I start my > > Tomcat server. It gives proper search results. > > > > What I am wondering is that even after I delete, the 'crawl' folder, > > the search page still gives proper search results. How is this > > possible? Only after I restart the Tomcat server, it stops giving > > results. > > The webapp seems to cache data. I have a related problem: updates to the > indexes are only noticed after restarting Tomcat (so I have scheduled a > nightly cron job to do that). > > Question for the Ones Who Know: in "bin/nutch mergesegs", can I use the same > directory for input and output? > > For example: > > bin/nutch mergesegs crawl/segments -dir crawl/segments > > Same for mergedb: can I issue: > > bin/nutch mergedb crawl/crawldb crawl/crawldb > > At present I pass through temporary directories, and then I switch them in > place of the old ones with a couple of "mv", but I don't know if that's > necessary, or may even be harmful (for example, leaving the webapp, unaware > of the "mv", pointing to the inode of the old directory). And I noticed that > "bin/nutch mergedb" does not create the output directory until it's done, so > I wonder if the explicit use of a temporary directory in my scripts is > redundant. > > Enzo > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list Nutch-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
