Installing and configuring a Solr server

While Solr is very easy to get running initially, there are quirks to using it in different OSs or with different packages. Child pages here describe tips for getting running in specific circumstances, and for configuing multiple search cores on one server.

In all of the below instructions please note the version of Apache Solr they are written against. At the time of this update Solr is on version 4! Version 4 differs greatly from previous versions. Be aware of this fact. Currently there is not HOWTO written against version 4.x of Solr.

Apache Solr Multi-core Setup using Jetty

Setting up one Solr server with two or more Drupal sites takes some additional configuration. If this is not done, all of the data for each

Apache Solr Multi-core on Debian Squeeze using packages and HTTP authentication

NOTE: This page is outdated because some config paths and security defaults have changed. Please help to update this documentation.

Apache Solr schema.xml

Reference: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml

Apachesolr Caching

Can be removed - Moved all the available info to http://drupal.org/node/1053068

Automatically Start Apache Solr

What about when you reboot your Apache Solr server? Are you going to type in the command line after each reboot? There's an easier way. You

Deployment of Solr servers for performance and availability

While it's possible to get to a reasonably large Drupal install on a single server where the webserver, Solr, and the SQL server are running

Installing Apache Solr on Windows 2008 with Jetty Running as a Service

Please note that this article was reproduced with permission from Bill Beckelman's website. The original article can be found here. This

Installing Solr 7.x/8.x on CentOS 7/Debian 11

Preparing for Installation

Installing Solr on Apple - Mac OS X

Snow Leopard already has Java installed on it, so it's pretty straightforward installing Apache Solr on Mac OS X versions 10.6 and above.

Installing Solr on Tomcat

CentOS:

Installing Solr on Ubuntu

Click on below appropriate Ubuntu Server version

Manipulating Apache Solr search results using the QueryElevationComponent and elevate.xml

In order to use these directions, you must have access to the your Apache Solr installation including solrconfig.xml and elevate.xml.

Quick start for Solr 3.6

The attached .zip contains only the essential files needed to run Solr 3.6.2 locally for development and testing with the Apache Solr Search

Quick start for Solr 4.6

The linked .zip contains only the essential files needed to run Solr 4.6.0 locally for development and testing with the Apache Solr Search

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