Install a Tomcat instance for free-text search

Guidewire free-text search requires that you set up a different instance of Tomcat than the instance that runs your PolicyCenter application. In a production environment, Guidewire requires that you set up the separate Tomcat instance on a host separate from the one that hosts your PolicyCenter application. This separate instance of the application server runs a full-text search engine, Apache Solr.

Whenever you install a separate Tomcat instance for Guidewire free-text search, change the port for the HTTP/1.1 protocol to 8983. The standard Solr port is 8983. Edit the file TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml, and change the connector port for the HTTP/1.1 protocol from 8080 to 8983, as the following example shows.

Connector port="8983" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
          connectionTimeout="20000" 
          redirectPort="8443" />