Hi Chris The /var/www/html/solr/data/ directory did exist. I tried opening up permissions completely for testing but no luck (the tomcat user had write permissions).
I decided to trash the whole installation and start again. I downloaded last nights build and untarred it. Put the .war into $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. Copied the example/solr directory as /var/www/html/solr. No JNDI file this time, just updated solrconfig to read /var/www/html/solr as my data.dir. I can access the admin page but when I try an index action from the commandline, or a search from the admin page, I get something like: "The requested resource (/solr/select/) is not available" I have other apps running under tomcat okay, seems like it can't find the lib .jars or can't access the classes within them? Stuck... Cheers Gary Gary Browne Development Programmer Library IT Services University of Sydney Australia ph: 61-2-9351 5946 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2007 9:51 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Null pointer exception : I am running v1.1.0. If I do a search (from the admin page), it throws : the following exception: : : java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: : /var/www/html/solr/data/index not a directory does /var/www/html/solr/data/ exist? ... if so does the effective userID for tomcat have permission to write to it? if not does the effective userID for tomcat have permission to write to /var/www/html/solr/ ? -Hoss
