Well, so, if I understand, the best would be to write a patch to add "configdir" to koha-conf.xml. Its value should be __KOHA_CONF_DIR__ I suppose?
So it could be used by my patch and probably by others.
I probably won't have time enough (working on facets is already a big job, and I have other things to do in my library, and I will leave community in 2 or 3 months...)
Does somebody wants to do that?

M. Saby

Galen Charlton a écrit :
Hi,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Mathieu Saby <mathieu.saby@univ-rennes2.fr> wrote:
Sorry, I was wrong, this pach only asked to create an "installdir" line in koha-conf.
But that does not solve my problem : why is there a reference to "installdir" in "Koha / Koha / SearchEngine / Solr / Config.pm" if installdir is not defined in standard koha-conf.xml? Is it a bug to fix?

Yes,references to installdir are a bug, IMO, as they won't work.  As far as your own patch is concerned, if the configuration file must live outside the database, I suggest following the example of this line in etc/koha-conf.xml:

 <queryparser_config>__KOHA_CONF_DIR__/searchengine/queryparser.yaml</queryparser_config>

Specifying the full path to the new config file in koha-conf.xml is safest.  It is actually an error to assume that Koha's configuration directory is a child of an "installation" directory -- for example, the Debian packages don't lay files out like that.

Regards,

Galen
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