Re: Installing Solr under Glassfish
Nope, still not right. The index is not created under solr home, instead it is created relative to $CWD, which in Glassfish is in the configuration area of the domain. How do I get the index back to live under solr.solr.home? Theo On 4/26/2010 9:32 PM, Theodore Omtzigt wrote: Turns out that I was almost there, just stuck that system property in the wrong place. There is a Systems Properties form just for these types of things. Sticking them in the JVM or Web Container properties wasn't the right thing to do. The only problem I now still have is that the xml response is raw. How do I trigger the xlts transformations for a easier to read xml rendering? For those interested in the answer here are the steps I went through to get Solr configured under Glassfish first, I used the command line bin/asadmin deploy solr.war to deploy the application. Then I copied the Solr home directory structure (from the documentation is example/solr) to /var/solr There is a java system property for solr by the name solr.solr.home that you can set to direct the Solr web application to find its home directory at a particular place. So in our case that system property needs to be set as follows: solr.solr.home=/var/solr In the Enterprise Server form (Common Tasks/Enterprise Server in the left navigation menu of the Administration console) there is a tab called System Properties. Add the above mentioned property in this form. save it. Then go back to the General tab. Just underneath the General Information label there is a button with the command Restart. Hit that to restart the Glassfish server. I guess, if you set this property before you deploy the Solr web application you don't need to do a restart, but I didn't confirm that behavior. Once restarted, go to the applications tab and launch the Solr application. And now the Solr web application will come up in a separate browser window. On 4/26/2010 9:08 PM, Theodore Omtzigt wrote: I am having trouble getting solr configured under glassfish. I am following the setup instructions from (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall). I copied the example solr home directory example/solr to /var/solr. When I deploy the solr.war and start it, I get the error that it cannot find solrconfig.xml and the places that it was looking are classpath and 'solr/conf'. First I tried to set the java property solr.solr.home=/var/solr, in both the generic JVM configuration as well as a default startup property and web container. That did not change the error message. The error message also indicates that the $CWD is set to some config directory under the default glassfish domain. So to test that idea, I copied the whole 'solr/conf' directory to that location and the admin console comes up. However, that doesn't appear to be the proper configuration either since none of the xlts appear to get triggered and I get an unadorned xml doc as return result. It also does not appear to be the way that glassfish wants its webapps configured. I also looked at the web.xml in WEB-INF of the deployed web application and found a segment that states that you can set the Solr home directory directly in web.xml. So I tried that, but that gives exactly the same solrconfig.xml not found error. Thus, I have run out of options mentioned in either the wiki or the config files. So, any suggestions how to do configure Solr to work under Glassfish? Theo
Re: Installing Solr under Glassfish
: Nope, still not right. The index is not created under solr home, instead it is : created relative to $CWD, which in Glassfish is in the configuration area of : the domain. : : How do I get the index back to live under solr.solr.home? what does your dataDir directive in solrconfig.xml look like? As a recall, an oddity of SOlr that has always existed is that if you declare a dataDir path it is relative the CWD -- if you don't declare one then solr defaults to data in the instanceDir (aka: solr home for single core use) -Hoss
Installing Solr under Glassfish
I am having trouble getting solr configured under glassfish. I am following the setup instructions from (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall). I copied the example solr home directory example/solr to /var/solr. When I deploy the solr.war and start it, I get the error that it cannot find solrconfig.xml and the places that it was looking are classpath and 'solr/conf'. First I tried to set the java property solr.solr.home=/var/solr, in both the generic JVM configuration as well as a default startup property and web container. That did not change the error message. The error message also indicates that the $CWD is set to some config directory under the default glassfish domain. So to test that idea, I copied the whole 'solr/conf' directory to that location and the admin console comes up. However, that doesn't appear to be the proper configuration either since none of the xlts appear to get triggered and I get an unadorned xml doc as return result. It also does not appear to be the way that glassfish wants its webapps configured. I also looked at the web.xml in WEB-INF of the deployed web application and found a segment that states that you can set the Solr home directory directly in web.xml. So I tried that, but that gives exactly the same solrconfig.xml not found error. Thus, I have run out of options mentioned in either the wiki or the config files. So, any suggestions how to do configure Solr to work under Glassfish? Theo
Re: Installing Solr under Glassfish
Turns out that I was almost there, just stuck that system property in the wrong place. There is a Systems Properties form just for these types of things. Sticking them in the JVM or Web Container properties wasn't the right thing to do. The only problem I now still have is that the xml response is raw. How do I trigger the xlts transformations for a easier to read xml rendering? For those interested in the answer here are the steps I went through to get Solr configured under Glassfish first, I used the command line bin/asadmin deploy solr.war to deploy the application. Then I copied the Solr home directory structure (from the documentation is example/solr) to /var/solr There is a java system property for solr by the name solr.solr.home that you can set to direct the Solr web application to find its home directory at a particular place. So in our case that system property needs to be set as follows: solr.solr.home=/var/solr In the Enterprise Server form (Common Tasks/Enterprise Server in the left navigation menu of the Administration console) there is a tab called System Properties. Add the above mentioned property in this form. save it. Then go back to the General tab. Just underneath the General Information label there is a button with the command Restart. Hit that to restart the Glassfish server. I guess, if you set this property before you deploy the Solr web application you don't need to do a restart, but I didn't confirm that behavior. Once restarted, go to the applications tab and launch the Solr application. And now the Solr web application will come up in a separate browser window. On 4/26/2010 9:08 PM, Theodore Omtzigt wrote: I am having trouble getting solr configured under glassfish. I am following the setup instructions from (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall). I copied the example solr home directory example/solr to /var/solr. When I deploy the solr.war and start it, I get the error that it cannot find solrconfig.xml and the places that it was looking are classpath and 'solr/conf'. First I tried to set the java property solr.solr.home=/var/solr, in both the generic JVM configuration as well as a default startup property and web container. That did not change the error message. The error message also indicates that the $CWD is set to some config directory under the default glassfish domain. So to test that idea, I copied the whole 'solr/conf' directory to that location and the admin console comes up. However, that doesn't appear to be the proper configuration either since none of the xlts appear to get triggered and I get an unadorned xml doc as return result. It also does not appear to be the way that glassfish wants its webapps configured. I also looked at the web.xml in WEB-INF of the deployed web application and found a segment that states that you can set the Solr home directory directly in web.xml. So I tried that, but that gives exactly the same solrconfig.xml not found error. Thus, I have run out of options mentioned in either the wiki or the config files. So, any suggestions how to do configure Solr to work under Glassfish? Theo
