The parent directory of Solr home is not special. Where Solr Home is (as you know) configurable. It's default location is different too, since it's in /var/solr for both the Docker & service install script.
~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:31 PM Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > What do we call the directory above the solr.home? > E.g. > - "schemaless" in example/schemaless/solr/gettingstarted > - "node1" in example/cloud/node1/solr/gettingstarted_shard1_replica_n2 > - "solr" in server/solr/book/conf > > In solr.in.cmd we "may be" calling it "solr start dir" > In bin/solr, we call it SOLR_SERVER_DIR > In install_solr-service.sh, we sort-of call it SOLR_VAR_DIR "Directory > for live/writable Solr files", which is not quite the same because > apparently pid files go there, while for distribution they seem to go > into bin > > I guess it mostly matters when you have multiple Solr instances > running on the same machine and you need to separate log locations, > etc. > > Regards, > Alex. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >