: > I just used the following steps (basically the same as yours just : > different paths) and got solr running in tomcat 7.0.29 with no : > problems.... : : Well, *and* using a different version of solr ...
Whoops ... sorry, somehow i totally missed that. I just tried again with Solr 3.6.1 and everything still worked fine... hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ ls apache-solr-3.6.1.tgz apache-solr-4.0.0-ALPHA.tgz apache-tomcat-7.0.29.tar.gz solr-context-file.xml hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ tar -xzf apache-solr-3.6.1.tgz hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ tar -xzf apache-tomcat-7.0.29.tar.gz hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ cp apache-solr-3.6.1/dist/apache-solr-3.6.1.war solr.war hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ sha1sum solr.war e1da03c97be88e2e72d120b6ba32de1133603766 solr.war hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ mkdir -p apache-tomcat-7.0.29/conf/Catalina/localhost/ hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ cp solr-context-file.xml apache-tomcat-7.0.29/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ cp -r apache-solr-3.6.1/example/solr solr-home hossman@frisbee:/var/tmp$ ./apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/catalina.sh start Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.29 Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.29 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/temp Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/ Using CLASSPATH: /var/tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/bootstrap.jar:/var/tmp/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/tomcat-juli.jar ...solr was up and running at http://localhost:8080/solr/ ... no errors in the logs. -Hoss