: Thanks for your response. Our production environment is a read only file : system. It is not allowing to modify or create new files under conf folder : at runtime. So copy config through replication is not working for us.
if your entire production server is read only, where do you keep your indexes? how do you update them? more specificly: if your conf directory is read only, what directory do you *want* to keep you schema.xml in that you cna write to? why not put your conf directory there? In general: schema.xml and solrconfig.xml can be loaded from the classpath as well as from the conf dir (at least: they use to be, but with a lot of the Solr Cloud stuff i'm not 100% certain that's still true) -Hoss
