Comments on How to install and configure Solr 6 on Ubuntu 16.04

Apache Solr is an enterprise-class open source search platform written in Java which enables you to create custom search engines that index databases, files, and websites. This tutorial will show you how to install the latest Solr version on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus). The steps will most likely work with later Ubuntu versions as well.

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By: Parkbenchbruce

Hi,

Great article - had problem at extracting solr with error message gzip:st din not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 error not recoverable exit

By: Parkbenchbruce

Hi,  I suspect that the file was not the tgz as I checked it with Gui extractor - still problems. The solution was to download via Gui and bin extract- the question is are we still in the tmp folder? The install is sitting in the bin folder

By: Parkbenchbruce

Hi,

I went to the folder where the solr 6.0.1 was extracted and installed the solr service.

I found a typo with bash missing after install Solr as a service using the script

$ sudo bash ./install_solr_service.sh solr-X.Y.Z.tgz This is from https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Taking+Solr+to+Production

Still a great article. I noticed that the other set of instructions refer to which folder you are now in such as the folder where the download is ...

By: Eddel

Hi,

Where do I suppose to put the schema.xml?

 

Thanks

By: Roger Hyam

Many thanks. Brilliant walk through. Just what I needed.

By: Gaurav

It is awesome to understand how we can downlaod step by step | great work

Thank you so much

By: Ken

Thanks for the great step by step instructions! Really easy to follow.

By: Martin Velez

Great tutorial.  Easy to follow.

By: xxx

How to enable basic authentification for SolR web?

By: mohd afeef

can you please give tutorial how can i install in windows. though i have install in ubuntu 14 & it works i new in xampp can you please help in this

By: Varun

Thanks for this!. Wonderful tutorial. This was just what i was looking for.

I was able to get Solr 6.3.0 running in the same vein in no time, on my ubuntu 16.10 installation! :). 

By: Silivri

Actual link is http://www.us.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/6.4.0/solr-6.4.0.tgz

By: Maximilian Grimm

Perfect description. Works like a charm.My Question now is. How can i set a Login Page for the Admin Interface.

Dont think this should be open for all.

Thanks a lot.

By: Bstr

This command   tar xzf solr-6.0.1.tgz solr-6.0.1/bin/install_solr_service.sh --strip-components=2

was generating an archive error. So I used dtrx rather than tar, much cleaner.