Thanks for the reply Alex... in fact I am using your book! the book seems like a good tutorial ...
My bitnami solr instance however already includes Solr (running in background) and a directory structure : root --opt ----bitnami ------apache-solr --------solr ----------collection1 I assume that the apache-solr directory is the same as the universal "example" directory mentioned in many tutorials. If I follow your book I create a new directory under apache-solr called "SOLR-INDEXING" with the collection1/conf/ and .xml files per your instruction. but now i have two instances running and somehow I need to point solr from the solr/collection1 core to the SOLR-INDEXING/collection1 core I would think this could be done on the Solr Admin page but can't see how. If i try and restart the jetty with "java -Dsolr.solr.home=SOLR-INDEXING -jar start.jar " it runs and does some install but I think it does not shut down the prior one first. In fact once i run that i lose all my solr and have to reinstall the VMWARE snapshot. Any guidance would be useful so I can continue with your book. Thanks steve -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Newbie-to-SOLR-with-ridiculously-simple-questions-tp4105788p4105812.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
