Apache Solr 4 – Getting Started

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# set version and base directory

version="4.4.0"

basedir=~/build/solr

# create directory for Solr server binaries

mkdir $basedir

cd $basedir

# download solr binaries > 70 MB

wget http://apache.mirror.clusters.cc/lucene/solr/$version/solr-$version.zip

# extract zip file

unzip -oq solr-$version.zip

# move versioned directory

mv solr-$version solr

# set base directory

basedir=~/build/solr

cd $basedir/solr/example/

# start solr server - uses port localhost:8983

java -jar start.jar

# set base directory

basedir=~/build/solr

# index xml files using post.jar

cd $basedir/solr/example/exampledocs

java -jar post.jar *.xml

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