solr on ubuntu 8.04

[Jack Bates <ms...@freezone.co.uk>]

I am trying to evaluate Solr for an open source records management
project to which I contribute: http://code.google.com/p/qubit-toolkit/

I installed the Ubuntu solr-tomcat5.5 package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/solr-tomcat5.5

- and pointed my browser at: http://localhost:8180/solr/admin (The
Ubuntu and Debian Tomcat packages run on port 8180)

However, in response I get a Tomcat 404: The requested
resource(/solr/admin) is not available.

This differs from the response I get accessing a random URL:
http://localhost:8180/foo/bar

- which displays a blank page.

From this I gather that the solr-tomcat5.5 package installed
*something*, but that it's misconfigured or missing something.
Unfortunately I lack the Java / Tomcat experience to track down this
problem. Can someone recommend where to look, to learn why the Ubuntu
solr-tomcat5.5 package is not working?

I started an Ubuntu wiki page to eventually describe the process of
installing Solr on Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Solr

Thanks, Jack

Re: solr on ubuntu 8.04

[Albert Ramstedt <al...@gmail.com>]

Hardy has solr packages already. You might want to look how they packaged
solr if you cannot move to that version.
Did you just drop the war file? Or did you use JNDI? You probably need to
configure solr/home, and maybe fiddle with
securitymanager stuff.

Albert

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Jack Bates <ms...@freezone.co.uk> wrote:

> I am trying to evaluate Solr for an open source records management
> project to which I contribute: http://code.google.com/p/qubit-toolkit/
>
> I installed the Ubuntu solr-tomcat5.5 package:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/solr-tomcat5.5
>
> - and pointed my browser at: http://localhost:8180/solr/admin (The
> Ubuntu and Debian Tomcat packages run on port 8180)
>
> However, in response I get a Tomcat 404: The requested
> resource(/solr/admin) is not available.
>
> This differs from the response I get accessing a random URL:
> http://localhost:8180/foo/bar
>
> - which displays a blank page.
>
> From this I gather that the solr-tomcat5.5 package installed
> *something*, but that it's misconfigured or missing something.
> Unfortunately I lack the Java / Tomcat experience to track down this
> problem. Can someone recommend where to look, to learn why the Ubuntu
> solr-tomcat5.5 package is not working?
>
> I started an Ubuntu wiki page to eventually describe the process of
> installing Solr on Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Solr
>
> Thanks, Jack
>