[SOLR-6718] relative coreRootDirectory evaluated against CWD, not Solr Home

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.10
• Fix Version/s: 5.0
• Assignee: Alan Woodward
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 07/Nov/14 21:47
• Updated: 23/Feb/15 05:02
• Resolved: 19/Dec/14 10:35

Description

as reported by Andreas Hubold on solr-user...

I'd like to just set it to a subdirectory of solr home (a "cores" directory to
avoid confusion with configsets and other directories). I tried

<str name="coreRootDirectory">cores</str>

but that's interpreted relative to the current working directory. Other paths 
such as sharedLib are interpreted relative to Solr Home and I had expected 
this here too.

This is definitely non-intuitive and we should try to fix it in 5.0 since it will represent a back-compat change for anyone already using a relative path.