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Simple guide to install Apache Solr 3.x for Drupal 7

Posted on Mon, Nov 07, 2011 by Nick Veenhof
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A quick and simple guide to get Drupal 7 and Apache Solr version 3.4 or higher running on your local development machine! For the ones that have been resistant in trying out Apache Solr. This is your chance! If you are running an OSX or Unix machine you could be running Apache Solr in 5 minutes.
Follow these simple steps and you will become a Solr Master very soon!
This guide has been made for unix and mac users. Windows users can probably use the same guide except for the example folders. If you are using Search API most of these steps are applicable to that project as well.

  1. Download the Apache Solr 7.x-1.x-dev module from the Apachesolr module and place it in your drupal folder for contributed modules. Typically this is sites/all/contrib
  2. Enable ApacheSolr and ApacheSolr Search modules in admin/build/modules
  3. Download Apache Solr http://apache.megamobile.be//lucene/solr/3.4.0/apache-solr-3.4.0.zip
  4. Unpack it somewhere outside your drupal installation and outside your web root/folder. Suggestion would be ~/Servers/apache-solr-3.4
  5. Go to sites/all/contrib/apachesolr/solr-conf and copy all files to ~/Servers/apache-solr-3.4/example/solr/conf
  6. In ~/Servers/apache-solr-3.4/example/solr/conf you can remove schema.xml and rename schema-solr3x.xml to schema.xml
  7. Open your command prompt and do cd ~/Servers/apache-solr-3.4/example
  8. Type the following command to start the Apache Solr service java -jar start.jar
  9. Test your solr server admin interface by visiting http://localhost:8983/solr/admin
  10. Go to admin/config/search/apachesolr/settings And click on edit. Verify if the url http://localhost:8983/solr/ is correctly entered and click ok
  11. If you want Facets you should download Facet API and enable it. When this is done you can go to admin/config/search/apachesolr/facets and enable the facets you'd want

  12. Security

    Careful because Solr comes unprotected. If you'd like to run Solr in a more permanent basis I would recommend to run it on Tomcat as described in my other guide http://www.nickveenhof.be/blog/setting-drupal-6-apache-solr-tomcat-6-and... and put an IP-filter in front of it.

Source original pdf : http://drupal.org/node/1332144

Comments

Posted on by Travis Johnston.

Thanks for the instructions. I was able to follow along until I ran the jar command and it got stuck on Started SocketConnector@0.0.0.0:8983

I am also using Acquia Dev Desktop which i'm not sure if that makes the port different or anything. I went to the settings page to test the connection but it can't reach the Solr server.

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