My turn to help, Paul. There is no such page on the Solr Wiki, but I agree with Paul, this can really be a quick and painless migration for typical Lucene/Solr setups. This is roughly how I'd do things:
- I'd set up Solr - I'd create the schema.xml mimicking the fields in the existing Lucene index - I'd copy over the Lucene index, keeping in mind Lucene jar versions, Solr/Lucene jar versions, and index compatibility - Start Solr - Go to Admin page and run test queries - Go to schema/solrconfig.xml and add various other things - proper cache sizes, index replication, dismax, spellchecker, etc. - Go to Lucene-based indexer classes and change them to use Solrj - Go to Lucene-based searcher classes and change them to use Solrj I'd leave embedded Solr and dynamic fields for phase 2 of the migration, unless those things really are necessary. I don't think you'd need to do anything with web.xml - solr comes as a webapp, packaged in a way, which contains its own web.xml Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul Libbrecht <p...@activemath.org> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 12:35:59 AM > Subject: SOLRizing advice? > > > Hello list, > > I am surely not the only one who wishes to migrate from bare lucene to solr. > Many different reasons can be there, e.g. facetting, web-externalization, > ease > of update... what interests me here are the steps needed in the form of > advice > as to what to use. > > Here's a few hints. I would love a web-page grouping all these: > > - first change references to indexwriter/indexreader/indexsearch to be those > of > SOLR using embedded-solr-server > > - make a first solr schema with appropriate analyzers by defining particular > dynamic fields > > - slowly replace the queries methods with solr queries, slowly taking > advantage > of solr features > > - web-expose the solr core for at least admin by merging the web.xml > > Does such a web-page already exist? > > thanks in advance > > paul
