Step 8 of 10 Indexing Drupal site

We are now going to index our Drupal site by running CRON.

Still using your internet browser go to http://10.1.2.3/cron.php
Note: You must replace above 10.1.2.3 by your first remote Ubuntu Server IP address.

If successful the next page will be empty. A white page. This is normal. It means CRON is in progress.

To get a status report on the indexing progress go to http://10.1.2.3?q=admin/settings/apachesolr/index
Reload this page to see the progress.
Wait.

In my case the first paragraph of this page reads.

The search index is generated by running cron. 12% of the site content has been sent to the server. There are 350 items left to send.

The server has a 4 min delay before updates are processed.

Click on 'running cron' link until 100% of the site content has been sent to the Solr server.
Tips: Clicking the 'running cron' link does the same thing as going to http://10.1.2.3/cron.php

Note: The solrconfig.xml that comes with this modules defines auto-commit, so it may take a few minutes between running cron and when the new content is visible in search.

Using Drupal navigate to ADMINISTER > USER MANAGEMENT > PERMISSIONS
Under SEARCH MODULES section check the boxes beside SEARCH CONTENT & USE ADVANCED SEARCH giving access to both ANONYMOUS USER & AUTHENTICATED USER.

Click on SAVE PERMISSIONS button.

You have successfully indexed your Drupal site by running CRON.