I set up a Solr project to run with Tomcat for indexing contents of a database by following a web tutorial that described how to put the project directory anywhere you want and then put a file called <projectname>.xml in the tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost directory that contains contents like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Context docBase="C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db/solr.war" crossContext="true">
  <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db" override="true"/>
</Context>

I got this working, and now I would like to create a logging.properties file for Solr only, as described in the Apache Solr Reference Guide distributed by Lucid. It says:

To change logging settings for Solr only, edit tomcat/webapps/solr/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties. You will need to create the classes directory and the logging.properties file. You can set levels from FINEST to SEVERE for a class or an entire package. Here are a couple of examples:
org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.level = FINEST
org.apache.solr.level = WARNING

I think this explanation assumes that the Solr project is in tomcat/webapps/solr. I tried putting a logging.properties file in various locations where I hoped Tomcat would pick it up, but none of them worked. If I have a solr_db.xml file in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost that points to a Solr project in C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db (that was created by copying the contents of the apache-solr-3.5.0/example/solr directory to C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db and going from there), where is the right place to put a "Solr only" logging.properties file?
Thanks,
Mike

You can unpack your war (jar -xvf solr.war), change logging.properties and then pack it again (jar -cvf solr.war)
You can also try to specify a new folder in a <lib...> tag in solrconfig.xml and put your prop file there.

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Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com

On 11. feb. 2012, at 01:07, Mike O'Leary wrote:

> I set up a Solr project to run with Tomcat for indexing contents of a database by following a web tutorial that described how to put the project directory anywhere you want and then put a file called <projectname>.xml in the tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost directory that contains contents like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <Context docBase="C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db/solr.war" crossContext="true">
>  <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db" override="true"/>
> </Context>
>
> I got this working, and now I would like to create a logging.properties file for Solr only, as described in the Apache Solr Reference Guide distributed by Lucid. It says:
>
> To change logging settings for Solr only, edit tomcat/webapps/solr/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties. You will need to create the classes directory and the logging.properties file. You can set levels from FINEST to SEVERE for a class or an entire package. Here are a couple of examples:
> org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.level = FINEST
> org.apache.solr.level = WARNING
>
> I think this explanation assumes that the Solr project is in tomcat/webapps/solr. I tried putting a logging.properties file in various locations where I hoped Tomcat would pick it up, but none of them worked. If I have a solr_db.xml file in tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost that points to a Solr project in C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db (that was created by copying the contents of the apache-solr-3.5.0/example/solr directory to C:/projects/solr_apps/solr_db and going from there), where is the right place to put a "Solr only" logging.properties file?
> Thanks,
> Mike