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Install Tomcat 5.5 and Solr 1.4 on Debian 5 (lenny)

Letzte Änderung 28.04.2009

Installation / Konfiguration

1.Installation of Java

First you have to install SUN JRE and JDK on your system. Version 6 is the current version. The following entries in /etc/apt/sources.list are necessary to download Java directly from the repository

# in non-free are the Java packages

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/lenny main non-free contrib

#Security updates for all debian packages

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main non-free contrib

Install Java 6 JRE und JDK packages:

apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

2. Activate and test Java

update-alternatives --config java

update-alternatives --config javac

and then check the java version:

java -version

and

javac -version

3. Change environment variables

The variable JAVA_HOME has to be set. Else Tomcat won't find the Java environment and hence will not start. Add the following lines to /etc/profile:

# Setup Jave environment 6

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

export JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre

4. Installation Tomcat

After changing the environment variables, please log off and login as root to benefit from the new settings.

Then start the installation of Tomcat with apt-get:

apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps

Then install solr:

apt-get install solr-tomcat5.5

Under /etc/default/tomcat5.5 JAVA_HOME set the JAVA_HOME directory:

# Run Tomcat as this user ID. Not setting this or leaving it blank will use the

# default of tomcat55.

#TOMCAT5_USER=tomcat55

# The home directory of the Java development kit (JDK). You need at least

# JDK version 1.4. If JAVA_HOME is not set, some common directories for 

# the Sun JDK, various J2SE 1.4 versions, and the free runtimes

# java-gcj-compat-dev and kaffe are tried.

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

5. Test Tomcat

Check is Tomcat ist running smoothly by open the following page in your favourite browser:

http://localhost:8180

The login details for the tomcat administrator you can find and change in:

$TOMCAT_HOME/etc/tomcat-users.xml

Create a new user with the roles "admin, manager".

Attention: You can only access from localhost by default.

6. Update solr to the newest version

download solr and untar the file (tar -zxf <filename> (http://people.apache.org/builds/lucene/solr/nightly)

Open solr.xml in /etc/tomcat5.5/Catalina/localhost folder and write down the install path of solr (docBase)
Untar the solr.war from the dist folder and move it to the noted folder
Copy the /conf folder from the folder /example/solr/conf to the docBase.

Change into the folder /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin:

cd /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin

Start Tomcat manually in the current window to check any possible error messages:

./catalina.sh run

This is helpful for a error search. You can alternatively check the logfiles.

Good resource web site. Very

Verfasst von klagony (nicht überprüft) am Di, 11/02/2010 - 20:50.

Good resource web site. Very helpful. SOLR could not be installed so needs further research.

Antworten

All the rest is documented

Verfasst von Gast (nicht überprüft) am Di, 11/30/2010 - 16:38.

All the rest is documented very good.
but I am still having trouble on running solr.

It seems to be loading the config, but then all goes wrong...?
There seems to be something missing or what?

Nov 30, 2010 5:26:48 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore
INFO: Opening new SolrCore at /usr/share/solr/, dataDir=./solr/data
Nov 30, 2010 5:26:48 PM org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema readConfig
INFO: Reading Solr Schema
Nov 30, 2010 5:26:49 PM org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema readConfig
INFO: Schema name=example
Nov 30, 2010 5:26:49 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrException log
SEVERE: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.solr.analysis.TokenizerChain.([Lorg/apache/solr/analysis/CharFilterFactory;Lorg/apache/solr/analysis/TokenizerFactory;[Lorg/apache/solr/analysis/TokenFilterFactory;)V
at org.apache.solr.schema.TrieField.init(TrieField.java:89)
at org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType.setArgs(FieldType.java:90)
at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema.readConfig(IndexSchema.java:341)
at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema.(IndexSchema.java:71)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.(SolrCore.java:197)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.getSolrCore(SolrCore.java:178)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.init(SolrDispatchFilter.java:69)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:221)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:302)

Antworten

Probaly you are using a

Verfasst von admin am Di, 11/30/2010 - 16:43.

Probaly you are using a config file that is not part of the distributed solr version. This can lead to "SEVERE: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError" errors. F.ex. because you refer in the config file to a tokenizer, that is not part of the current solr distribution.