(may have double posted...apologies if it is) It seems like when "solr home" is absent, Solr makes an attempt to look a few other places to load its configuration. It will try to look for solrconfig.xml on the classpath as well. It doesn't seem like it makes any attempt to find solr.xml though. Why is that? Read below for the larger narrative...
The gory details: Having this configuration discovery makes things really convenient for creating custom Solr web applications where you can throw all of Solr's config in your resources, create a war, deploy it to Tomcat and it happily loads. No setting of environment variables or setup required. Something like this, /someapp/src/main/resources |-solrconfig.xml |-schema.xml |-etc. The same approach is outlined here: http://netsuke.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/launching-solr-from-maven-for-rapid-development/ We're creating a multicore installation and have created a folder structure which no longer has a solrconfig.xml at the top level of the resources. /someapp/src/main/resources |-solr.xml |-core1 |-solrconfig.xml |-schema.xml |-etc. |-core2 |-solrconfig.xml |-schema.xml |-etc. And when you try to run this, Solr can't find what it needs to start up. To fix this, we manually deployed the configuration on the web server and set the solr/home environment variable on the web app's config within Tomcat. Not ideal and it makes automation awkward. Ultimately, I want a completely packaged war for a multicore instance I can drop anywhere without additional setup. Is this possible? Am I approaching this wrong? This e-mail message, and any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity identified in the alias address of this message and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and subject to legal restrictions and penalties regarding its unauthorized disclosure and use. Any unauthorized review, copying, disclosure, use or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message, and any attachments, from your system. Thank you.
