On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar<shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Ron Ellis <r...@benetech.org> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> When trying to utilize the new HTTP based replication built into Solr 1.4 I >> encounter a problem. When I view the replication admin page on the slave >> all >> of the master values are null i.e. Replicatable Index Version:null, >> Generation: null | Latest Index Version:null, Generation: null. > > > If the master has just been started, it has no index which can be replicated > to slave. If you do a commit on master then a replicateable index version > will be shown on the slave and replication will proceed. Alternately, you > can add the following to master configuration > > <str name="replicateAfter">startup</str> > > >> Despite >> these missing values the two seem to be talking over HTTP successfully (if >> I >> shutdown the master the slave replication page starts exploding with a >> NPE). > > > The slave replication page should not show a NPE if the master is down. I'll > look into it
This should .be fixed in the trunk. > > >> >> When I hit http://solr/replication?command=indexversion&wt=xml I get the >> following... >> >> <response> >> - >> <lst name="responseHeader"> >> <int name="status">0</int> >> <int name="QTime">13</int> >> </lst> >> <long name="indexversion">0</long> >> <long name="generation">0</long> >> </response> >> >> However in the admin/replication UI on the master I see... >> >> ** >> Index Version: 1250525534711, Generation: 1778 >> Any idea what I'm doing wrong or how I could begin to diagnose? I am using >> the 8/25 nightly build of solr with the example solrconfig.xml provided. >> The >> only modifications to the config have been to uncomment the master/rslave >> replication sections and remove the data directory location line so it >> falls >> back to solr.home/data. Also if it's relevant this index was originally >> created in solr 1.3. >> > > I think that should be fine. I assume both master and slave are same Solr > version 1.4? > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
