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Published inOct 2013
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Surendra Mohan
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Surendra Mohan

Surendra Mohan, who has served a few top-notch software organizations in varied roles, is currently a freelance software consultant. He has been working on various cutting-edge technologies like Drupal, Moodle, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Node.js, SoapUI, and so on for the past 10 years. He also delivers technical talks at various community events like Drupal Meetups and Drupal Camps. To find out more about him, his write-ups, technical blogs, and much more, go to http://www.surendramohan.info/. He has also written the books Administrating Solr and Apache Solr High Performance published by Packt Publishing and has reviewed other technical books such as Drupal 7 Multi Site Configuration and Drupal Search Engine Optimization, as well as titles on Drupal commerce, ElasticSearch, Drupal related video tutorials, titles on OpsView, and many more. Additionally, he writes technical blogs and articles with SitePoint.com. His published blogs and articles can be found at http://www.sitepoint.com/author/smohan/.
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Installation

Before we get ready for the installation, you need to have the necessary downloads ready.

Once you have the mentioned installers ready, you may proceed installing them as follows:

  1. Install XAMPP, and follow the instructions.

  2. Install Tomcat, and follow the instructions.

  3. Install the latest Java JDK.

    By now there must be a folder called /xampp in your C Drive (by default). Navigate to the xampp folder and find xampp-control application (shown in the following screenshot) and then start it.

  4. Start Apache, MySQL, and Tomcat services and click on the Services button at the right-hand side of the panel as demonstrated in the following screenshot:

  5. Locate Apache Tomcat Service, right-click on it and navigate to Properties as demonstrated in the following screenshot:

  6. After the Properties Window pop up, set the Startup type to Automatic, and close the window by clicking on OK as shown in the following screenshot:

    For the next few steps, we will stop Apache Tomcat in the Services window. If this doesn't work, then click on the Stop link.

  7. Extract Apache Solr and navigate to the /dist folder. You will find a file called solr-4.3.1.war as demonstrated in the following screenshot; copy this file.

  8. Navigate to C:/xampp/tomcat/webapps/ and paste the solr-4.3.1.war file (which you have copied in the previous step) into this folder; rename solr-4.3.1.war to solr.war as shown in the following screenshot:

  9. Navigate back to <ApacheSolrFolder>/example/solr/ and copy these files as demonstrated in the next screenshot:

  10. Create a directory in C:/xampp/ called /solr/ and paste ApacheSolrFolder>/example/solr/ files into this directory, that is, C:/xampp/solr, as shown in the following screenshot:

  11. Now navigate to C:/xampp/tomcat/bin/tomcat6w, click on the Java Tab, and copy the command -Dsolr.solr.home=C:\xampp\solr into the Java Options section, as shown in the following screenshot:

  12. Now it is time to navigate to the services window. Start Apache Tomcat in the Services window.

  13. Now you are done with installing Apache Solr at your local environment. To confirm, type http://localhost:8080/solr/admin/ and hit Enter into the browser. You should be able to see Apache Solr Dashboard.

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Surendra Mohan

Surendra Mohan, who has served a few top-notch software organizations in varied roles, is currently a freelance software consultant. He has been working on various cutting-edge technologies like Drupal, Moodle, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Node.js, SoapUI, and so on for the past 10 years. He also delivers technical talks at various community events like Drupal Meetups and Drupal Camps. To find out more about him, his write-ups, technical blogs, and much more, go to http://www.surendramohan.info/. He has also written the books Administrating Solr and Apache Solr High Performance published by Packt Publishing and has reviewed other technical books such as Drupal 7 Multi Site Configuration and Drupal Search Engine Optimization, as well as titles on Drupal commerce, ElasticSearch, Drupal related video tutorials, titles on OpsView, and many more. Additionally, he writes technical blogs and articles with SitePoint.com. His published blogs and articles can be found at http://www.sitepoint.com/author/smohan/.
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