Using 'curl' is fine. There is a library called SolrJ for Java and other libraries for other scripting languages that let you upload with more control. There is a thing in Solr called the DataImportHandler that lets you script walking a file system.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:38 PM, K. Seshadri Iyer <seshadri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Pardon me if this sounds very elementary, but I have a very basic question > regarding Solr search. I have about 10 storage devices running Solaris with > hundreds of thousands of text files (there are other files, as well, but my > target is these text files). The directories on the Solaris boxes are > exported and are available as NFS mounts. > > I have installed Solr 1.4 on a Linux box and have tested the installation, > using curl to post documents. However, the manual says that curl is not the > recommended way of posting documents to Solr. Could someone please tell me > what is the preferred approach in such an environment? I am not a programmer > and would appreciate some hand-holding here :o) > > Thanks in advance, > > Sesh > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com