Re: Controlling read/write access for replicated indexes

[Bill Au <bi...@gmail.com>]

Solr's web.xml has a servlet-mapping which maps url-pattern "/update/*" to
the SolrUpdateServlet.  You can set up a <security-constraint> on that to
protect against inadvertent updates.

Bill

On 3/28/07, Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious what mechanisms everyone is using to control read/write access
> for distributed replicated indexes.  We're moving to a replication
> environment very soon, and our client applications (quite a few) all have
> configuration pointers to the URLs for solr instances.  As a precaution, I
> don't want errant configuration values to inadvertently send write
> requests
> to read servers, as an example.  As an aside, we're running solr under
> tomcat 5.5.x which has its own control aspects as well.
>
> Any best practices, i.e. something that's not a maintenance headache
> later,
> from those who have done this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> j.r.
>