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Solr error when running on stand along tomcat

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:18 pm
by jaeyim
I'm a newbie to the Java world. I'm trying to run the demo site on OSX Mountain Lion. I've got it successfully running on MySql and Tomcat 7 from Eclipse but when I try and deploy the app (war and pom) to the Tomcat server, I get the following errors in catalina.out. Is there something I'm missing? Am I not doing something correctly? Any help would be much appreciated.

[ WARN] 12:19:57 SolrCore - [] Solr index directory 'solrhome/./data/index' doesn't exist. Creating new index...
[ERROR] 12:19:57 CoreContainer - java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory: /solrhome/./data/index
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initIndex(SolrCore.java:403)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.<init>(SolrCore.java:552)
at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:480)
at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.load(CoreContainer.java:332)
at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$Initializer.initialize(CoreContainer.java:165)
at org.broadleafcommerce.core.search.service.solr.SolrSearchServiceImpl.<init>(SolrSearchServiceImpl.java:97)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
at org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils.instantiateClass(BeanUtils.java:147)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:110)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:280)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1035)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:939)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:485)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:456)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:294)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:225)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:291)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:585)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:913)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:464)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:385)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:284)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:111)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4887)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5381)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:977)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployWar.run(HostConfig.java:1655)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory: /solrhome/./data/index
at org.apache.lucene.store.NativeFSLock.obtain(NativeFSLockFactory.java:171)
at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:72)
at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:1098)
at org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexWriter.<init>(SolrIndexWriter.java:84)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.initIndex(SolrCore.java:398)

Re: Solr error when running on stand along tomcat

Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:25 pm
by jefffischer
In development.properties for your project, try changing/adding this property:

solr.source=/path/to/a/directory/with/read/write/access

Of course, substitute the path to a directory that makes sense on your file system.