【Solr】solr installation

win7 + tomcat7 + solr4.0.0

Download
Tomcat7: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
solr4.0: http://mirror.bit.edu.cn/apache/lucene/solr/4.0.0/

install tomcat
1.  unzip apache-tomcat-7.0.33-windows-x64.zip to D:\apache-tomcat

2.  configuration environment variable:
   CATALINA_HOME D:\apache-tomcat
   classpath add D:\apache-tomcat\bin
   D:\apache-tomcat\conf\tomcat-users.xml

<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat, manager-gui"/>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
</tomcat-users>

3. run tomcat
1) cmd -> D:\apache-tomcat\bin>startup.bat
2) Into directory D:\apache-tomcat\bin, then double click startup.bat



then , open http://localhost:8080 to check sucessful.



install solr
1. unzip apache-solr-4.0.0.zip

2. create home directory D:\solr_home
    copy D:\Downloads\apache-solr-4.0.0\example to D:\solr_home
    or only copy D:\Downloads\apache-solr-4.0.0\example\solr to D:\solr_home\solr

3. copy D:\Downloads\apache-solr-4.0.0\dist\apache-solr-4.0.0.war
   or D:\Downloads\apache-solr-4.0.0\example\webapps\solr.war
   to D:\solr_home\solr\war\solr.war

4. configuration solr.home
1) based on current path
   This way needs to start tomcat in the directory D:\solr_home, Solr will find ./solr,
   so when start, we need to change to D:\solr_home.
2) based on environment variable
    create new variable solr.home = D:\solr_home
3) based on JNDI
   create solr.xml file, in D:\apache-tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\solr.xml
   content:

<Context docBase="D:/solr_home/solr/solr.war" debug="0" crossContext="true" >
  <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="D:/solr_home/solr" override="true" />
 </Context>

5. start tomcat server
   http://localhost:8080/solr/admin   solr management interface
   http://localhost:8080/solr/browse  blog example interface



PS: You should use Google browser or firefox . Others cant display property.
use IE brower, failure interface like this: