Setting up Apache Solr on Windows

Solr is highly reliable, scalable and fault tolerant, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, automated failover and recovery, centralized configuration and more. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.

Steps  :

Pre requisite 

                Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.7 or higher should be installed.

                                Command to check : java -version

Get the Solr software

                Download the latest solr zip file from Apache-solr website.

                URL to download : http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

                Extract the zip solr file.

Start the solr

                Go to solr-5.1.0\solr-5.1.0\bin

            Command to start : solr.cmd start

        Solr started on default8983 port.

               Open the browser : http://localhost:8983/solr/

               

Add the  files to search

                Here examples are used which solr has provided by default in the zip file.

                Examples exists in the directory:  solr-5.1.0\solr-5.1.0\example

                Create a solr sample core in from the same "bin" directory to add the files into core

                                Command to create : solr.cmd create -c test

                                "test" core created successfully

                               

               

Solr provides " post.jar" to add files on Windows which resides in the directory : " solr-5.1.0\example\exampledocs"

Add the files to solr using post.jar. Here all the xml files are added in "exampledocs"

                Go to exampledocs directory

                Command to add the xml  files in test core : java -Dc=test -jar post.jar *.xml

Go to "http://localhost:8983/solr/" to check the core "test" details

Search any of the content by value to q parameter in the query.

For example to search a "samsung" word : http://localhost:8983/solr/test/select?q=samsung

Two "doc" are returned.

To get the document in JSON format: http://localhost:8983/solr/test/select?q=*charac*&start=0&wt=json&indent=true 



Response contains two parts: responseHeader, response

ResponseHeader:
    status : Always zero for successful search
    QTime : Solr Search time in ms
    q : query
    wt : return type like json, xml

Response :
    numFound : total number of records found
    start : starts the result from index zero. Means first result starts from zero index. If start =2, then 0 & 1 fetched query data will be vomited