Since you are moving to Solr 5.x, have you seen https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Adding+Custom+Plugins+in+SolrCloud+Mode ?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Vaibhav Bhandari < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick response Shawn. That worked! > > I wish this was documented though. > > -Vaibhav > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 6/4/2015 12:01 PM, Vaibhav Bhandari wrote: > > > With Solr 5.X, however, I am finding it hard to include my > custom-plugin > > > jars in the classpath. I am using bin/solr script to start up Solr. > > > > > > I have tried a few things: > > > > > > 1. Passing the path of custom jars as -Djava.class.path=<full-path> > > > 2. Passing the path as -a "-cp <full-path>" > > > 3. Copying the jars inside server/lib/ext folder. > > > 4. Copying the jars inside server/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib > > folder > > > (because after reading the script, i realize that this folder is > > included > > > in the classpath by default). > > > > > > Is there a recommended way to load the plugin jars in the classpath? > Note > > > that I am willing to avoid the blob-store api. > > > > > > Also, there is no documentation on the OPTIONS parameter in start.jar > and > > > how do i set that from bin/solr script. > > > > > > Any guidance is highly appreciated. > > > > Find your solr home. This is the directory where solr.xml lives, and > > normally the directory where the core directories are. If you aren't > > specifying the solr home, it will default to server/solr in the root of > > the extracted download. > > > > In the solr home, create a "lib" directory. Put all extra or contrib > > jars required by Solr there. Start Solr. > > > > That's it. All jars included in the lib directory that you created are > > automatically loaded by Solr. You do not need any <lib> directives in > > your solrconfig.xml file. > > > > Thanks, > > Shawn > > > > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
