Installing Apache Solr on Windows with Tomcat

Installing Apache Solr on Windows with Tomcat

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By: bhanuism

1) JDK

Install java development kit  preferably version 1.6 or greater.

2)Tomcat

As a complete web dev environment for windows i recommend using XAMPP. It comes with built in Tomcat servlet, so you won’t have to waste your time installing tomcat. Well regarding version of tomcat, i have successfully tested solr on tomcat 5,6 and 7.

Tomcat can be managed from xampp control panel or you can install it as a windows service so that it can be run independently from xampp. Well doesn’t matter much whether it is xampp service or a windows service. To install it as a windows service run the ‘service‘ batch file in c:\xampp\tomcat\bin .

After installation to check if tomcat is running open you browser and ping

 localhost:8080

Xampp download

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#641

3) Solr install

Download the latest solr release which is currently solr 3.6. Download the tarball fromhere and extract it to say  downloads\apache-solr-3.6.0

a) Preparing solr home directory

Make a new directory in C:\ and name it solr.

Copy dist and contrib directories from downloads\apache-solr-3.6.0 i.e.downloads\apache-solr-3.6.0\dist and downloads\apache-solr-3.6.0\contrib toC:\solr\dist and C:\solr\contrib

Make a directory named solr inside C:\solr and copy  downloads\apache-solr-3.6.0\example directory contents to it. Now C:\solr\solr is what is called solr home.

b) Configuring tomcat to detect solr

Copy  downloads\apache-solr-3.6.0\dist\apache-solr-3.6.0.war file toC:\xampp\tomcat\webapps directory and rename it to solr. If tomcat service is on you will find that a solr directory is automatically created. If tomcat is off don’t bother it would be created next time tomcat starts.

2.    Now run C:\xampp\tomcat\bin\tomcat7w.exe (7 is for the version), select java tab and in java options pane write -Dsolr.solr.home=C:\solr\solr . Click OK and configuration is done. Restart tomcat.

c) Test solr

In your browser enter localhost:8080/solr/admin and you will see.

That’s it. Solr is installed and now it can be used to do fast searching on huge amount of data from any source be it a sql database or a file. But to do that a lot of work still needs to be done related to request handlers and schemas. In the future posts i will be talking about the internals of solr.

Copy from: http://solrapache.blogspot.com/2012/06/installing-apache-solr-on-windows-with.html

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Notation: if you want to query solr with json data please add &wt=json in the end of line

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