Apache Solr
Quick Start

An Apache Solr instance for testing purposes can be configured fast by performing the following steps:

  1. Download the binaries for a supported Apache Solr version. Connector supported versions can be found here.

  2. Extract the Solr binaries to a convenient location.

  3. Create a configuration set

    1. Navigate to:

      <solrRootDirectory>/server/solr/configsets

    2. Create a new configuration set via following the official documentation. The connector provides an example Solr schema which can be found in the schema folder of the connector directory.

  4. Start Solr from the Solr root directory.

    ./bin/solr start

  5. Create a collection / core via the Solr Control Scripts.
    <name>: The name of the collection / core.
    <configSet>: The directory of the configuration set.

    ./bin/solr create -c <name> -d <configSet>

The connector does only index metadata fields which are defined in the schema! If you want to index all metadata extracted from the source system, add the following dynamic field definition:

<dynamicField name="*"  type="text_general"  indexed="true"  stored="true"  multiValued="true"/>