Question

I was wondering if somebody can teach me the functional differences between path and *solr_home*. What kind of paths can they take (I know path cannot take filesystem path as parameters).

My current production configuration is:

port: 8080
path: /solr/
solr_home: /usr/share/apache-solr-3.3.0/solr/

I was under the impression that the index info is stored in my rails app /solr/ directory and that with every cap deploy they will be erased, but they are not so where are my solr index files stored? And what does that solr_home path do?

Please somebody clear my doubts.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The solr home directory is supposed to contain your solr instance. It has a structure like this:

solr_home  
   |_  solr.xml (optional: multiple core configuration etc.)  
   |_  conf (directory containing the solr configuration)  
         |_  solrconfig.xml  
         |_  schema.xml  
   |_  data (default location for the index)  

If you specified just the solr home without any additinal configuration you should find your index inside the solr_home/data directory.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need some more information.