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.
>
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