: The apps seem to work fine, only for some reason, when I start tomcat it : creates a solr dir in the cwd. So naturally, depending on where i do the
Solr does not ever attempt to create a directory named "solr" (the only directories Solr tries to create if they don't already exist are inside of hte data dir) : restart, it wont work. If i cd to some dir where I have write access, the : apps goes up fine, and it even says the solr/home is where it should be. so what get's put in this solr dir that is created for you? my guess is it's the expanded war file -- there is probably a tomcat setting for where these should go, and your tomcat configs have it as "." : (The dir i defined in the xml file, NOT cwd). But under statistics, both : separate solr apps seems to use an IndexReader under CWD. Ideally I would can you be more explicit about what exactly you are seeing (ie: cut+paste the log messages from Solr startup about solr home nad JNDI, cut+paste exactly what you see on the statistics page, etc..., cut+paste the shell commands you are running -- starting with a call to pwd so we know what the current directory is, cut+paste the directory listings of each directory you ae refering to.) : my own install of tomcat 6. (Although I dont understand why the example has : "f:/" stuff in the directory paths, since that notation throws errors at me. That's just an example of a windows path. -Hoss