How do I fix this installation problem with multicore Solr on Ubuntu 10.04?

Question

Following instructions from the two sites below, I've installed Tomcat 6 and Solr 1.4.

• http://gist.github.com/204638
• https://wiki.fourkitchens.com/display/TECH/Solr+1.4+on+Ubuntu+9.10+and+CentOS+5

I have successfully got it up and running on a server running 9.04 with multicore support, but on the 10.04 I can't seem to get it to work.

I am able to reach localhost:xxxx/solr/ on the 10.04 box and see a single link to the Solr Admin, but following the link takes me to a 404 page with the following output:

/solr/admin/
HTTP Status 404 - missing core name in path
The requested resource (missing core name in path) is not available

I am also unable to access /solr/site1/ as I would except - it similarly returns a 404.

  <!-- from /var/solr/solr.xml, site dirs exist -->
  <cores adminPath="/admin/cores">
    <core name="site1" instanceDir="site1" />
    <core name="site2" instanceDir="site2" />
  </cores>

  <!-- from /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml -->
  <Context docBase="/var/solr/solr.war" debug="0" privileged="true" allowLinking="true" crossContext="true">  
      <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="/var/solr" override="true" />
  </Context>

Answer 1

I don't know why the link in http://localhost:xxxx/solr/ is wrong, but the admin URL for site1 is http://localhost:xxx/solr/site1/admin/ (notice the slash at the end, it's required, otherwise you'll get a 404).

A query in the site1 core would look like this: http://localhost:xxxx/solr/site1/select/?q=solr&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on

http://localhost:xxx/solr/site1/ is a 404, that is the correct response.

Answer 2

Bah! Configuration fail. Got it fixed.

Answer 3

For those coming here via Google:

I had this same problem, which I eventually tracked down to permissions on the solr.home directory (the cores didn't exists as it couldn't create directories for them). Check the latest catalina log file in /var/log/tomcat6/ for any issues.