Hi Shalin, Thanks for your help in clarifying advantage of using it behind http. It makes more sense to me now.
I will also checkout embedded solr as this makes more sense in what i want to achieve. Cheers, Ravi On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ravi, > > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Ravish Bhagdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This may be a naive question but do we really need to have solr.solr.home > > variable for solr installation? It is a bit annoying modifying tomcat > > settings in automated install. If I create a packaged application, how > do > > I > > ensure a normal user would be able to install it without having to modify > > tomcat batch or shell files (or service settings in case of msi > installer)? > > If not possible what will be the easiest way to automate the process > (cross > > platform)? > > > The solr home variables tells Solr where to look for it's config files. You > can configure it in a variety of ways as given at the installation section > at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ > > You can also avoid it completely by having the container's current working > directory contain the solr folder, though not a very nice approach in your > case. > > > > > > > > Also, is it possible to run solr without needing to host it in a http > > container? > > > Yes it is, if you are using Java. See the EmbeddedSolrServer in Solrj. > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solrj > > > > Why do we need webapp to index or query?? > > > The HTTP/XML interface gives a great advantage to Solr. Non-Java clients > can easily consume it. It is also great for scaling to high loads. You can > put multiple Solr boxes behind a HTTP load balancer. You can even put a > caching proxy (like squid) before it. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. >
