Generating Solr collection configuration using instance directories
You must create a collection configuration prior to creating a Solr collection. The
configuration files for a Solr collection are stored in a directory called instance directories.
Learn how to create the directory and make it available to Solr by uploading the contents to
Zookeeper.
In this case, configuration files for a collection are contained in a directory called
an instance directory. An instance directory is a named set of
configuration files. You can generate an instance directory template locally, edit the
configuration, and then upload the directory to ZooKeeper as a named configuration set. You
can then reference this named configuration set when creating a collection.
If you are using Kerberos, kinit as a user with permission to create
the collection configuration:
kinit solradmin@[***EXAMPLE.COM***]
Replace [***EXAMPLE.COM***] with your Kerberos
realm name.
To generate a template instance directory, run the following command:
solrctl instancedir --generate $HOME/solr_configs
Customize the collection by directly editing the solrconfig.xml and
schema.xml files created in
$HOME/solr_configs/conf.
After completing the configuration, make it available to Solr by running the following
command, which uploads the contents of the instance directory to ZooKeeper:
Use the solrctl utility to verify that your instance directory
uploaded successfully and is available to ZooKeeper. List the uploaded instance
directories as follows:
solrctl instancedir --list
If you used the --create command to create a collection named
weblogs, the --list command returns
weblogs.