Solr on Windows Server 2008 R2

asp.net-mvc-3, solr, solrnet

Solution

Here is the step by step procedure to get you started:

Step 1: Download Solr. It's just a zip file.

Step 2: Copy from your `SOLR_HOME_DIR/dist/apache-solr-1.3.0.war` to your tomcat webapps directory: `$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/solr.war` – Note the war file name change. That’s important.

Step 3: Create your solr home directory at a location of your choosing. This is where the configuration for that solr install resides. The easiest way to do this is to copy the `SOLR_HOME_DIR/examples/solr` directory to wherever it is you want your solr home container to be. Say place it in `C:\solr`.

Step 4: Hope you have set your environment variables, if not then please set `JAVA_HOME`, `JRE_HOME`, `CATALINA_OPTS`, `CATALINA_HOME`. Note that `CATALINA_HOME` refers to your Tomcat directory & `CATALINA_OPTS` refers to the amount of heap memory you want to give to your Solr.

Step 5: Start tomcat. Note this is only necessary to allow tomcat to unpack your war file. If you look under `$CATALINA_HOME/webapps` there should now be a solr directory.

Step 6: Stop tomcat

Step 7: Go into that solr directory and edit `WEB-INF/web.xml`. Scroll down until you see an entry that looks like this:

<!-- People who want to hardcode their "Solr Home" directly into the 
     WAR File can set the JNDI property here... 
 --> 
<!-- 
  <env-entry> 
     <env-entry-name>solr/home</env-entry-name> 
     <env-entry-value>/Path/To/My/solr/Home/solr/</env-entry-value> 
     <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> 
  </env-entry> 
-->

Set your Solr home (for example: `C:\solr`) and uncomment the env entry.

Step 8: Start Tomcat again, and things should be going splendidly. You should be able to verify that solr is running by trying the url `http://localhost:8080/solr/admin/`.

The other answers here are good enough to get you integrate Solr with your ASP.Net & it should be pretty simple as Solr exposes HTTP.

Problem

I need to install Solr on Windows Server 2008 R2, and integrate it with a asp.net mvc3 application. I have tried to find the docs on how to install/setup solr on windows server, but found no good docs / help. Moreover, after install I want to integrate results into asp.net mvc3 applications, so a search query and results need to be displayed there. I'm also clue less how to do this. Although both the questions are little different, any suggestions / document that may help us getting started are truly welcome.

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