Installation guide: Debian based installs Solr configsets

[Mathieu Pelletier]

Just a heads-up if you are on Debian based systems- when installing Solr from source, the configsets directory lives in /var/solr/data/configsets.  If you try to copy DSpace cores (Item 13 in the backend install) to /opt/solr/server/solr/configsets/ Solr does not pick up the new cores.  This one caused a bit of head scratching for us, so hopefully it saves someone else some time.

[Steli Vali]

Thank you, I was looking for this information :)

[Mathieu Pelletier]

Awesome.  I am glad it helped!

[Night Librarian]

Thanks a lot!

I was scratching my head for a while before I read it.  On my Ubuntu 20.4 with SOLR 8.11.2, there was no configsets directory in /var/solr/data.  After creating one and moving cores from /opt/solr/server/solr/configsets to var and restarting SOLR, DSpace cores appear in SOLR web interface and are running!

[Allan Pickett]

Also my thanks. This was the missing piece.

Following the wiki instructions just left the tomcat backend not starting.

Strangely enough copying the dspace/solr/*  to /var/solr/data  Would enable the tomcat backend server to actually start but not the front end to run.

And then what actually worked was  as described by the OP :

mkdir /var/solr/data/configsets

cp -R [dpsace-deploy]/solr/*  /var/solr/data/configsets

 

And an extra detail - running solr as the dspace user, if that makes any difference.

Cheers - A