Solr Installation

By default, SOLR will ship with Jetty server. In order to install with Jetty, you may need to:

1. Install JRE or JDK from Oracle (at least 1.7), you can download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
2. Setup JAVA_HOME path

a. Right-click on “Computer”, and click on “Properties”

b. Click on “Change Settings”

c. Click on “Environment Variables”

d. Under “User variables for XXXX”, click on “New” button to create a new user variable

Input “JAVA_HOME” as variable name and C:\{your_java_installed_path}\jdk1.7.0_55 as your variable value. If you are using different version of JDK, please update the path value.

3. Download SOLR from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/solr/5.4.1
4. Unzip SOLR file (solr-5.4.1.zip), and you will find the below folders and files uder solr-5.4.1 folder:

5. Run “cmd” to open a command prompt, and enter “cd C:/{your_installed_path}/solr-5.4.1/bin/”

6. Run “solr start”

7. You may browse the page : http://localhost:8983/ and see what happen:

Done, SOLR is up and running using Jetty.

You can stop the SOLR by “solr stop –p 8983” under C:/{your_installed_path}/solr-5.4.1/bin/ :

If SOLR throws “OutOfMemoryError” after indexing tone of articles, you may need to increase the heap size memory by running the startup command as “solr start –m 2g”:

And the SOLR admin will show you the memory allocation: