Hi, Reading that people have considered deploying "example" folder is slightly strange to me. No wonder they are confused and confuse their ops. We just took vanilla jetty (jetty9) and installed solr.war on it, configured it, no example folders at all. Since then it works nicely.
The main reason for us to get away from tomcat, that we have used originally, was that it felt too heavy for running a Solr webapp, which isn't using anything Tomcat-specific. In older versions (tomcat6) it would leak memory and threads. We knew, that jetty is mature enough and is lighter and used at large companies, like Google. This was convincing enough to try. We are still using Tomcat for other webapps, specifically for clustering and load balancing between webapp instances, but that is not needed for our Solr installation at this point. Regards, Dmitry Blog: http://dmitrykan.blogspot.com Twitter: twitter.com/dmitrykan On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > So, it sounds like that either Solr is treated as a webapp, in which case > it is installed with most of the webapps under Tomcat (legacy/operational > reason). So, Solr docs just needs to explain how to deploy under Tomcat and > the rest of document/tooling comes from Tomcat community. > > Or, if Solr is treated not as a webapp but as a black box, it needs to > support and explain all the operational requirements (deployment, > extension, monitoring) that are currently waved away as a 'container > issue'. > > Regards, > Alex. > P.s. I also agree that example directory layout is become very confusing > and may need to be re-thought. Probably a discussion for a different > thread, if somebody has a thought out suggestion. > Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at > once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Gopal Patwa <gopalpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My case is also similar to "Sujit Pal" but we have jboss6. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Sujit Pal <sujit....@comcast.net> > wrote: > > > > > In our case, it is because all our other applications are deployed on > > > Tomcat and ops is familiar with the deployment process. We also had > > > customizations that needed to go in, so we inserted our custom JAR into > > the > > > solr.war's WEB-INF/lib directory, so to ops the process of deploying > Solr > > > was (almost, except for schema.xml or solrconfig.xml changes) identical > > to > > > any of the other apps. But I think if Solr becomes a server with > clearly > > > defined extension points (such as dropping your custom JARs into lib/ > and > > > custom configuration in conf/solrconfig.xml or similar like it already > > is) > > > then it will be treated as something other than a webapp and the > > > expectation that it runs on Tomcat will not apply. > > > > > > Just my $0.02... > > > > > > Sujit > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Siegfried Goeschl <sgoes...@gmx.at> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi ALex, > > > > > > > > in my case > > > > > > > > * ignorance that Tomcat is not fully supported > > > > * Tomcat configuration and operations know-how inhouse > > > > * could migrate to Jetty but need approved change request to do so > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Siegfried Goeschl > > > > > > > > On 12.11.13 04:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hello, > > > >> > > > >> I keep seeing here and on Stack Overflow people trying to deploy > Solr > > to > > > >> Tomcat. We don't usually ask why, just help when where we can. > > > >> > > > >> But the question happens often enough that I am curious. What is the > > > >> actual > > > >> business case. Is that because Tomcat is well known? Is it because > > other > > > >> apps are running under Tomcat and it is ops' requirement? Is it > > because > > > >> Tomcat gives something - to Solr - that Jetty does not? > > > >> > > > >> It might be useful to know. Especially, since Solr team is > considering > > > >> making the server part into a black box component. What use cases > will > > > >> that > > > >> break? > > > >> > > > >> So, if somebody runs Solr under Tomcat (or needed to and gave up), > > let's > > > >> use this thread to collect this knowledge. > > > >> > > > >> Regards, > > > >> Alex. > > > >> Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ > > > >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > > > >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all > > at > > > >> once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD > > > book) > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > >
