Solr service not starting

[guiwoda]

I'm pretty new to puppet, but I find this module far more complicated than others.

This is my manifest file:

(... apache, php, postgres stuff ...)
## Begin Solr Manifest
class { 'solr':
  install_source => "http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/4.3.0/solr-4.3.0.tgz",
  config_dir => '/vagrant/static/solr/conf',
  config_file => '/vagrant/static/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml'
}

I'm provisioning a vagrant / virtualbox VM (CentOS 6.5).

Provisioning ends with no errors, but:

• solr service never started
• solr src sits at /opt/solr/solr-4.3.0 and no "deployment" of the example folder was done

Am I missing something? Documentation just says class { 'solr': } so I'm guessing I am.

Thanks!

[guiwoda]

Ok, adding install => 'puppi' did a whole bunch of stuff... but still, no service available.

I found this in /etc/puppi/projects/solr/config

# File Managed by Puppet
# This is the base configuration file for project solr
# During a puppi deploy it's copied into the runtime configuration
#   used by the scripts executed by puppi 
#
# Do not edit this file. You can modify these variables:
# Permanently: directly on your puppi manifests (When you use the puppi:project:: defines)
# Temporarily: using the puppi option -o to override them.
#   example: puppi deploy $name -o "source=http://alt.com/file deploy_root=/var/tmp"

# Common variables for project defines
project="solr"
source="http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/4.3.0/solr-4.3.0.tgz"
deploy_root="/opt/solr"
user="root"
predeploy_customcommand=""
postdeploy_customcommand=""
init_script=""
disable_services=""
firewall_src_ip=""
firewall_dst_port="0"
report_email="root"
enable="true"

# Variables used by project::files
files_prefix=""
source_baseurl=""

# Variables used by project::maven
document_root=""
config_root=""

# Variables added during runtime puppi operations

So I'm guessing I have to provide the startup script? How do I continue with this?

[alvagante]

When you use puppi as installation method Puppet provides puppi environment but actually doesn't install anything.
To complete the installation (and to manage further deployments) you have to write, from you server root console:

puppi deploy solr

[alvagante]

To install the tarball directly via Puppet use, as install method, 'source':

class { 'solr':
  install => 'source',
  install_source => "http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/4.3.0/solr-4.3.0.tgz",
}

[guiwoda]

@example42 the last example you gave me renders the following error:

Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /etc/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml at 178:/etc/puppet/modules/solr/manifests/init.pp
Error: Could not set 'present' on ensure: No such file or directory - /etc/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml at 178:/etc/puppet/modules/solr/manifests/init.pp
Wrapped exception:
No such file or directory - /etc/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml

I don't know why it supposes that I'll have a solrconfig.xml file there. I'd use the default one, for starters...

[guiwoda]

Would you mind explaining a bit more how to get Solr running with this module?
I am stuck doing this manually and I need to provision multiple virtual machines with different versions and configurations / schemas.

Up until now, I only managed to get a copy of Solr downloaded to /opt/solr and extracted there (e.g. /opt/solr/solr-4.3.0/). Usually we copy the $SOLR_DIR/example folder to another location (e.g. /var/www/solr-instance-1/) and generate an executable in /etc/init.d using jetty (e.g. /etc/init.d/solr-instance-1).
The configuration files and schema is managed by our repo and could be a symlink to it, but I'd need puppet to manage that as well.

Thanks.

[alvagante]

I gave a look to the commit history, as I've not used this module for a long time.
It definitively need more care, and wider tests for different installation options.
Unfortunately this is not a priority in my todo list, if you want specific features of bug fixes consider the opportunity of sponsoring them:
http://example42.com/?q=sponsor_Example42_modules_development
Sorry if I can't help you better, at the moment