2. Starting Solr in Standalone Mode

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This section describes how to run Solr in Standalone Mode. This can be achieved by running Solr independently without zookeeper where you have a single core for each index.

In this section, we will discuss about the standalone server and core, to run Solr with an example schema, how to add documents, and how to run queries. When the Solr server is started in Standalone mode the created configuration is called core and when it is started in SolrCloud mode the created configuration is called Collection.

1. Starting Solr Server

Solr server can be started by running following command in the bin directory from the Solr directory.

$ bin/solr start

This will start Solr, listening on default port 8983. Now, let’s open the Solr GUI by logging into localhost:8983 in the web browser.

2. Using Solr Help

Use help command for specific usage instructions of Solr

$ bin/solr start -help

3. Starting Solr Server with a Different Port

We can change the port Solr listens on, by giving -p as a parameter to Solr start command.

$ bin/solr start -p 8984

Starting Solr Server with a Different Port

4. Stopping Solr Instance

To stop Solr instance running on a specific port use -p parameter with Solr stop command.

$ bin/solr stop -p 8983

5. Creating Core in Solr

We will use the -c parameter to create a core in Solr.

$ bin/solr create_core -c core1

Now, let’s check the Solr GUI for created core named as Core1.

6. Posting Documents in the Core

$ bin/post -c core1 example/exampledocs/*xml

Now, let’s explore Solr GUI to check number of documents posted to core1.

explore Solr GUI to check number of documents posted to core1 image 1

explore Solr GUI to check number of documents posted to core1 image 2

7. Running Query on the Documents

We can run the desired query in the -q field of the Solr GUI query panel.

Once the query is executed we get the following result.

8. Deleting Solr Core

We can delete the core previously created by using -c parameter with delete command in Solr.

$ bin/solr delete -c core1 -p 8983

9. Starting Solr with a Specific Bundled Example Configuration Set

Solr introduced a provision to create a set of sharable configuration files called Config Sets, that can be used to create new cores. The example configurations allow to get started with a configuration that mirrors what you want to accomplish with Solr.

We can launch the examples using -e flag where is the name of the example to run; available examples are:

Cloud: SolrCloud example

The cloud example starts a 1-4 node SolrCloud cluster on a single system. An interactive session will be initiated to take you through options to select an initial config set to start with.

Techproducts: Comprehensive example illustrating many of Solr's core capabilities.

The Techproducts example starts Solr in standalone mode. It starts Solr schema designed for the sample documents included in exampledocs directory under example directory from Solr. The configuration used can be found in sample_techproducts_configs directory.

Dih: Data Import Handler

The Data Import Handler (DIH) provides a mechanism for extracting data from a data store and indexing it. DIH can index content from Relational Database, HTTP based data sources such as RSS and ATOM feeds, e-mail repositories, and structured XML.