Mac Apache Solr Quick Start Guide

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Mac Apache Solr Quick Start




Welcome Mac User! The Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Quick Start with Apache Solr on Mac OS X.

And the Apache Solr Mac Install is an industrial-strength, high performance, thread-safe search server based on Apache Lucene.

Furthermore Solr uses Lucene under the covers to provide the most powerful full text search capabilities available in any open source product.

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  1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
    Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Mac Apache Solr Quick Start Guide - Open Terminal

  2. See How to Install Apache Solr on Mac

    Mac Apache Solr Installation

  3. Then Make Solr First Configuration
    We’ll initialize a 2 nodes Solr Cluster!

    bin/solr start -e cloud

    And Follow the CLI Wizard…
    Press to Confirm 2 when prompted:

    how many Solr nodes would you like to run in your local cluster? (specify 1-4 nodes) [2]:

    Then simply Hit for First Node’s Port:

    Please Enter the port for node1 [8983]:

    And Again for the Second one:

    Please Enter the port for node2 [7574]:

    Then the 2 Nodes Cluster will be Initialized:

    Cluster at localhost:9983 ready

  4. Again when Prompted Start Making a Collection Data Index
    So Set Name as “techproducts” and Hit :

    Please provide a name for your new collection: [gettingstarted]
    techproducts

    Confirm for the 2 Shards -> (In SolrCloud, a logical partition of a single Collection):

    How many shards would you like to split techproducts into? [2]

    And again for the Replicas -> (Shards Replicas distributed across multiple Nodes for fault tolerance):

    How many replicas would you like to split techproducts into? [2]

    Finally Set the Config File’s Name to “sample_techproducts_configs”:

    Please choose a configuration for the techproducts collection, available options are:
_default or sample_techproducts_configs [_default]

    sample_techproducts_configs

    And You’ll be Greated with a:

    SolrCloud example running, please visit: http://localhost:8983/solr

    Congratulations You are Riding a Solr Search Cloud!

  5. Access Solr Admin UI on Browser at
    http://localhost:8983/solr/

    Mac Apache Solr Quick Start Guide - Solr Admin Backend

  6. Load some Data to Start Making Queries
    Here we’ll Index the techproducts Directory’s Data with:

    bin/post -c techproducts example/exampledocs/*s

    Now we’re ready to Start Searching…
    Congratulations!

  7. Solr Searching
    There are severals Options to Make Queries to Solr Server:
    Admin UI, cUrl,wget, Chrome POSTMAN, …, as well as several programming Client APIs.
    To access the Browsers Query facility go to: http://localhost:8983/solr/#/techproducts/query

    Mac Apache Solr Quick Start Guide - Solr Searching on Browser Admin
    Or with cUrl you can try a query like:

    curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/techproducts/select?q=foundation"

    Here Looking for the Term “foundation”
    Find here below Further Docs to improve your Solr Searching Skill!

  8. Apache Solr Searching Extended Documentation

    Apache Solr Queries Online Docs