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Sandeep has been working in Liferay technology for more than 8 years and has more than 10 years' of overall experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay across various verticals such as construction, financial, and medical domains, providing solutions for collaboration, enterprise content management, and Web content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries according to sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions he has also been involved in giving training on Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay he had experience in Java and Java EE Technologies. He has authored "Liferay Beginner's Guide" and "Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter" with Packt Publishing. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and travel.
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Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.
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Dharmesh Vasoya is a Liferay 6.2 certified developer. He has 5.5 years of experience in application development with technologies such as Java, Liferay, Spring, Hibernate, Portlet, and JSF. He has successfully delivered projects in various domains, such as healthcare, collaboration, communication, and enterprise CMS, using Liferay. Dharmesh has good command of the configuration setup of servers such as Solr, Tomcat, JBOSS, and Apache Web Server. He has good experience of clustering, load balancing and performance tuning. He completed his MCA at Ahmedabad University.
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Managing solrconfig.xml


As we already know now, solrconfig.xml forms the heart of Solr when it comes to configuring Solr.

There are two ways in which this file is modified:

  • By making direct changes in solrconfig.xml
  • Using the config API to create configoverlay.json, which holds configuration overlays to modify the default values specified in solrconfig.xml

The solrconfig.xml file is used to configure the admin web interface. It can be used to change parameters for replication and duplication. We can change the request dispatcher too using solrconfig.xml. Various listeners and request handlers can be configured using solrconfig.xml.

Go to any of the conf directories for a collection and you will find solrconfig.xml inside. Navigate to SOLR_HOME/server/solr/configsets and you will see various configurations that follow best practices for configuring Solr.

Solr allows you to specify a variable for the property value, which can be replaced at runtime with the following syntax:

${propertyname[:default...
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Sandeep Nair

Sandeep has been working in Liferay technology for more than 8 years and has more than 10 years' of overall experience in Java and Java EE technologies. He has executed projects using Liferay across various verticals such as construction, financial, and medical domains, providing solutions for collaboration, enterprise content management, and Web content Management systems. He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries according to sourceforge statistics. Besides development, consulting, and implementing solutions he has also been involved in giving training on Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay he had experience in Java and Java EE Technologies. He has authored "Liferay Beginner's Guide" and "Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter" with Packt Publishing. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and travel.
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Chintan Mehta

Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.
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Dharmesh Vasoya

Dharmesh Vasoya is a Liferay 6.2 certified developer. He has 5.5 years of experience in application development with technologies such as Java, Liferay, Spring, Hibernate, Portlet, and JSF. He has successfully delivered projects in various domains, such as healthcare, collaboration, communication, and enterprise CMS, using Liferay. Dharmesh has good command of the configuration setup of servers such as Solr, Tomcat, JBOSS, and Apache Web Server. He has good experience of clustering, load balancing and performance tuning. He completed his MCA at Ahmedabad University.
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