Solr Index Location

Tuesday 27 January 2009 1:24:00 pm

I looked at extension/ezfind/java/solr/data and see nothing there, but i have indexed items..

Thanks,
Bryan Ruiz

Friday 20 February 2009 1:52:41 am

Hi Bryan,

/srv/solr is the default location for Solr's search index. It is configured in ezfind/java/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml, as follows :

<config>
  <!-- snip -->
  <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:/srv/solr}</dataDir>
  ....

Changing this location on a running setup is to be handled with care, whilst doing it on a brand new setup is ok.
The location of Solr's index is totally transparent to an eZFind's user though.

Ow, and by the way, eZFind 2.0 stable hit the road yesterday :
* http://ez.no/company/news/ez_systems_releases_apache_solr_based_open_source_enterprise_search_solution_ez_find_2_0
* http://ez.no/doc/extensions/ez_find
* http://ez.no/ezfind/download

Upgrade and enjoy !

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Monday 02 March 2009 7:56:46 am

I personally prefer to keep all stuff that is 'writeable' by the server itself (be it the java-based solr server or the apache+php based eZP) slightly separate, ie. outside of the "extensions" dir.

It helps
- if I want to make the whole ezp-install read-only, except for the /var dir, for extra security
- if I want to keep the directories where data is stored on a separate volume / mount point to decrease the risk of filling up disks with data and or logs

Of course you can achieve similar results using symlinks...

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Tuesday 03 March 2009 7:23:22 am

Thanks Gaetano and Nicolas for the feedback.

Good to know the reason why default directory was changed from ezfind 1 to ezfind 2.

My question was related with the documentation in ezfind2 (in some doc files default directory is /srv/solr and in other the one inside extension directory...) and I was no sure which directory was the best option... of course all depends of each installation/environment...

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