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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Sudharshan S <su...@gmail.com> on 2009/03/04 14:55:53 UTC

Tomcat5 + Solr. Problems in deploying the Webapp

Hi all,
I am trying to setup a solr instance with Tomcat5 on a Fedora10
machine. Here is what I did,

1.) Copy the apache-solr-nightly.war to webapps/solr.war
2.) Set solr.solr.home in tomcat.conf
3.) Use the Manager interface of tomcat to deploy the webapp

But, while doing so, I get the following exceptions.
--------
Mar 4, 2009 6:55:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart
SEVERE: Exception starting filter SolrRequestFilter
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig
        at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:76)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:78)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3635)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222)
        at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1173)
        at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:549)
        at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:105)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
----------------

What am I missing? If it matters I am running the nightly build from
March 3 2009.

Thanks and Regards
Sudharshan S
Blog : http://www.sudharsh.wordpress.com
IRC   : Sup3rkiddo @ Freenode, Gimpnet

Re: Tomcat5 + Solr. Problems in deploying the Webapp

Posted by Sudharshan S <su...@gmail.com>.
Hi Matt,

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Matt Mitchell <go...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have you looked at this page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat

Yes. I mimicked the SimpleInstall method

>
> It almost sounds like you're deploying twice? Putting the solr.war in
> webapps would be one way, and the other would be a context config file +
> using the web manager. If you're using the config/context, then don't put
> the solr.war in webapps, tomcat should do that for you after deploying with
> the manager.

Pardon me, but my experience with Tomcat is only a few hours old. From
the Manager interface (manager/html) to be exact, I found out that the
solr instance was not running, Hence clicked 'start'. The logs showed
me the aforementioned exception. I guess using config/context is
optional? since reading from the archives and your post, it seems that
a config/context occurence and putting solr.war in webapps are
mutually exclusive.

If it helps, I have the following configuration option set in tomcat5.cont

JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS
-Dcatalina.ext.dirs=$CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib:$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
-Dsolr.solr.home=/home/sudharsh/Projects/solr/solr"

Regards
Sudharshan S
Blog : http://www.sudharsh.wordpress.com
IRC   : Sup3rkiddo @ Freenode, Gimpnet

Re: Tomcat5 + Solr. Problems in deploying the Webapp

Posted by Matt Mitchell <go...@gmail.com>.
Hi,

Have you looked at this page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat

It almost sounds like you're deploying twice? Putting the solr.war in
webapps would be one way, and the other would be a context config file +
using the web manager. If you're using the config/context, then don't put
the solr.war in webapps, tomcat should do that for you after deploying with
the manager.

Matt

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Sudharshan S <su...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am trying to setup a solr instance with Tomcat5 on a Fedora10
> machine. Here is what I did,
>
> 1.) Copy the apache-solr-nightly.war to webapps/solr.war
> 2.) Set solr.solr.home in tomcat.conf
> 3.) Use the Manager interface of tomcat to deploy the webapp
>
> But, while doing so, I get the following exceptions.
> --------
> Mar 4, 2009 6:55:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart
> SEVERE: Exception starting filter SolrRequestFilter
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
> org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig
>        at
> org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:76)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:78)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3635)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1173)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:549)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:105)
>        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
>        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:525)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
>        at
> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
>        at
> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875)
>        at
> org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
>        at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
>        at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
>        at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
> ----------------
>
> What am I missing? If it matters I am running the nightly build from
> March 3 2009.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Sudharshan S
> Blog : http://www.sudharsh.wordpress.com
> IRC   : Sup3rkiddo @ Freenode, Gimpnet
>