Having fun with Apache Solr opensource search server

Installation is straightforward and hence will not be covered. I use Solr version 5.1.0 and find that the Apache Solr Reference Guide 5.1 does not seems up to date and hence I
have to rely on the help provided by the solr and post binary. This small write-up is for my own record and for anyone who may find it useful.


$ bin/solr create -c test123
Failed to determine the port of a local Solr instance, cannot create test123!

$ bin/solr start -p 8984

Started Solr server on port 8984 (pid=6694). Happy searching!

$ bin/solr create -c test123
WARN  - 2015-05-26 14:52:54.557; org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI; Request to http://localhost:8984/solr/admin/info/system failed due to: Connection refused, sleeping for 5 seconds before re-trying the request ...

Setup new core instance directory:
/usr/home/fs/solr-5.1.0/server/solr/test123

Creating new core 'test123' using command:
http://localhost:8984/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=test123&instanceDir=test123

{
  "responseHeader":{
    "status":0,
    "QTime":4023},
  "core":"test123"}

$ bin/solr status

Found 1 Solr nodes:

Solr process 6694 running on port 8984
{
  "solr_home":"/usr/home/fs/solr-5.1.0/server/solr/",
  "version":"5.1.0 1672403 - timpotter - 2015-04-09 10:37:54",
  "startTime":"2015-05-26T02:52:50.118Z",
  "uptime":"0 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes, 29 seconds",
  "memory":"14 MB (%2.9) of 490.7 MB"}

should have start server with default port of 8983, so

$ bin/solr stop

Sending stop command to Solr running on port 8984 ... waiting 5 seconds to allow Jetty process 6694 to stop gracefully.

$ bin/post -c test123 example/exampledocs/*.xml

$ bin/solr start

Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid=7326). Happy searching!

$ bin/post -c test123 example/exampledocs/*.xml

java -classpath /usr/home/fs/solr-5.1.0/dist/solr-core-5.1.0.jar -Dauto=yes -Dc=test123 -Ddata=files org.apache.solr.util.SimplePostTool example/exampledocs/gb18030-example.xml example/exampledocs/hd.xml example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml example/exampledocs/ipod_video.xml example/exampledocs/manufacturers.xml example/exampledocs/mem.xml example/exampledocs/money.xml example/exampledocs/monitor.xml example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml example/exampledocs/mp500.xml example/exampledocs/sd500.xml example/exampledocs/solr.xml example/exampledocs/utf8-example.xml example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml

SimplePostTool version 5.0.0

Posting files to [base] url http://localhost:8983/solr/test123/update...

Entering auto mode. File endings considered are xml,json,csv,pdf,doc,docx,ppt,pptx,xls,xlsx,odt,odp,ods,ott,otp,ots,rtf,htm,html,txt,log

POSTing file gb18030-example.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file hd.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file ipod_other.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file ipod_video.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file manufacturers.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file mem.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file money.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file monitor.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file monitor2.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file mp500.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file sd500.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file solr.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file utf8-example.xml (application/xml) to [base]

POSTing file vidcard.xml (application/xml) to [base]

14 files indexed.

COMMITting Solr index changes to http://localhost:8983/solr/test123/update...

Time spent: 0:00:01.139

Somehow the link provided in the guide didn't work, but i manage to guess the url to use for query:

go to http://localhost:8983/solr/#/test123/query?q=video to query about video, 


Then i realise i need to remove the # in the url

http://localhost:8983/solr/test123/query?q=video&fl=id,name,price

i got a JSON response:

{
  "responseHeader":{
    "status":0,
    "QTime":1,
    "params":{
      "q":"video",
      "fl":"id,name,price"}},
  "response":{"numFound":3,"start":0,"docs":[
      {
        "id":"MA147LL/A",
        "name":["Apple 60 GB iPod with Video Playback Black"],
        "price":[399.0]},
      {
        "id":"EN7800GTX/2DHTV/256M",
        "name":["ASUS Extreme N7800GTX/2DHTV (256 MB)"],
        "price":[479.95]},
      {
        "id":"100-435805",
        "name":["ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512 MB PCIE Video Card"],
        "price":[649.99]}]
  }}

using http://localhost:8983/solr/test123/select?q=video&fl=id,name,price

i got a XML response

01videoid,name,priceMA147LL/AApple 60 GB iPod with Video Playback Black399.0EN7800GTX/2DHTV/256MASUS Extreme N7800GTX/2DHTV (256 MB)479.95100-435805ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512 MB PCIE Video Card649.99

To add more documents to be indexed, use the same command as above, i.e.
bin/post -c test123 example/goodies-sg/file.htm


That's all for now...  This is only the beginning, and Solr really has a lot to offer, but so far the steps here should allow me to go further.

Fook Sheng