Turns out that I was almost there, just stuck that system property in
the wrong place. There is a "Systems Properties" form just for these
types of things. Sticking them in the JVM or Web Container properties
wasn't the right thing to do.
The only problem I now still have is that the xml response is raw. How
do I trigger the xlts transformations for a easier to read xml rendering?
For those interested in the answer here are the steps I went through to get
Solr configured under Glassfish
first, I used the command line
bin/asadmin deploy solr.war
to deploy the application.
Then I copied the Solr home directory structure (from the documentation is example/solr) to /var/solr
There is a java system property for solr by the name solr.solr.home that you
can set to direct the Solr web application to find its home directory at a
particular place. So in our case that system property needs to be set as
follows:
solr.solr.home=/var/solr
In the "Enterprise Server" form (Common Tasks/Enterprise Server in the left navigation menu of the Administration console) there is a tab called "System Properties". Add the above mentioned property in this form. save it.
Then go back to the "General" tab. Just underneath the "General Information" label there
is a button with the command "Restart". Hit that to restart the Glassfish server. I guess, if you
set this property before you deploy the Solr web application you don't need to do a restart, but I didn't
confirm that behavior.
Once restarted, go to the applications tab and launch the Solr application.
And now the Solr web application will come up in a separate browser window.
On 4/26/2010 9:08 PM, Theodore Omtzigt wrote:
I am having trouble getting solr configured under glassfish.
I am following the setup instructions from
(http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall). I copied the example solr
home directory example/solr to /var/solr.
When I deploy the solr.war and start it, I get the error that it cannot
find solrconfig.xml and the places that it was looking are classpath and
'solr/conf'.
First I tried to set the java property solr.solr.home=/var/solr, in both
the generic JVM configuration as well as a default startup property and
web container. That did not change the error message.
The error message also indicates that the $CWD is set to some config
directory under the default glassfish domain. So to test that idea, I
copied the whole 'solr/conf' directory to that location and the admin
console comes up. However, that doesn't appear to be the proper
configuration either since none of the xlts appear to get triggered and
I get an unadorned xml doc as return result. It also does not appear to
be the way that glassfish wants its webapps configured.
I also looked at the web.xml in WEB-INF of the deployed web application
and found a segment that states that you can set the Solr home directory
directly in web.xml. So I tried that, but that gives exactly the same
solrconfig.xml not found error.
Thus, I have run out of options mentioned in either the wiki or the
config files. So, any suggestions how to do configure Solr to work under
Glassfish?
Theo
