[TYPO3-Solr] Still installation problems

[Hauke Meyer]

Answering myself in order to give some advice to whom ever need some:

the current version is
Extension Version 2.8.0 (see:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-solr/wiki/Supported_Solr_versions)

This Extension needs Apache Solr 2.6.1 as marked in the table and not
2.5.1 as it is installed by the script. The Currency and
GermanNormalizationFilterFactory problems marked below are solved then.
And the rest is more or less ok (easy to debug). 

Hauke

Am 11.12.2012 11:38, schrieb Hauke Meyer:
> Hi folks,
>
> meanwhile I work on my third solr-typo3 installation and got really
> frustrated.
> The easiest way is to use the script for the solr/tomcat complete
> installation. I toke this way once and it works quite well. But it is
> not always possible. In my current case I have to use a Squeeze Debian
> installation with the default tomcat6 and here is where my trouble starts.
> The wiki information (Setup on Debian 6 (Squeeze) systems) did not work
> for me at all. The install script needed a hard rework to run without
> errors. I have a lot of "Bad Substitution" errors (the loops over
> LANGUAGES and SOLR-VER) and some syntax problems. Nothing to stop me but
> it is pain in the ass.  In line 14 we have a wrong named variable
> GITRANCH_PATH.
>
> After all I am not all new to bash programming (but I am not good at
> Debian, so most of the mistakes above may be selfmade ones) and I
> succeeded to create a running version.
> But... during tomcat startup I got
>
> "Error loading class 'solr.CurrencyField'"
> and
> "Error loading class 'solr.GermanNormalizationFilterFactory'"
>
> These errors persist even with the git version to which I switched in
> hope for more consistency. But if you try it that way the paths to the
> tomcat installation are to change by hand, because they are all absolute.
>
> I think these classes are from Solr 4.0, so I comment them out in the
> schema - files, but I must confess: I don't know what I am doing.
> After all the solr installation is running but it was a hard way... And
> I do not know if it is really working ;-)
>
> I would love to have the documentation "Manual Install without Script"
> and not just scripts.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I like the project and my running installations work
> like charm, but wrong installscripts without a good "how to without
> script" is a good source for frustration.
>
> Hauke
>
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