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This will start the Jetty server and get Solr running from within Jetty. Visiting hlocalhost:8983/solr/admin should look something like this:
This will start the Jetty server and get Solr running from within Jetty. Visiting hlocalhost:8983/solr/admin should look something like this:


[[Image:SolrExample1.png|left|thumb|400px]]
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Revision as of 02:33, 8 June 2012

Solr is a search engine server that allows for querying via HTTP, JSON, or XML, and returns results in JSON or XML.

I'm trying to use it to create a searchable database of text files.

Installation

Download it and compile it by using Ant (a Java-based make program):

$ wget http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache/lucene/solr/3.6.0/apache-solr-3.6.0-src.tgz

$ tar xzf apache-solr-3.6.0-src.tgz

$ cd apache-solr-3.6.0

$ ant ivy-bootstrap # this installs ivy, an Ant dependency

$ ant compile

It'll take a couple of minutes to finish.

Test

You can test everything by running

$ ant test

Making War

Make a .war file by doing this:

$ cd /path/to/apache-solr-3.6.0/solr

$ ant dist

Again, this will take a while.

Making Example

Make the Ant example by typing

$ cd /path/to/apache-solr-3.6.0/solr

$ ant example



Running Solr

Using Jetty (Defualt)

To run Solr, you have to have a web server running locally. The example that is distributed with Solar is also distribute with Jetty, a lightweight Java web server. After you've finished running the above commands and have made the Solr example, type:

$ java -jar start.jar

This will start the Jetty server and get Solr running from within Jetty. Visiting hlocalhost:8983/solr/admin should look something like this:

SolrExample1.png