Solr basics

Steps I had to follow to get solr going with existing cores:


1. Install solr from zip downloaded directly from apache
2. Place the cores (folders) to C:\Installs\solr-5.5.4\server\solr (or whatever the directory is where solr is downloaded)
3. Download latest JRE
4. Set up JAVA_HOME environment variable (mine is Name: JAVA_HOME Value: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_144)
5. Make a necessary config change ()
6. In command prompt as admin go to the bin folder for solr (C:\Installs\solr-5.5.4\bin) and type in 'solr start'
7. Go to solr admin page and see your indexes

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1. Weighed search results
2. Facets
3. Boosting


In CMD:

netstat -an

Net stop HTTP / Net start HTTP

sc qc http

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Used Bitnami to install Solr on a remote box. When prompted for a port number Solr will listen to I left it at default which was 80. After the install Solr completely overtook iis and I could no longer get to a sitecore site. I uninstalled Solr and reinstalled it with Bitnami. This time for port number I enterd 8080.

When changing site from Lucene to Solr:

1. Correct config files
2. Correct indexing configurations
3. Check return types for computed fields (stringCollection, guildCollection) if returning a list
4. In Lync statements make sure all fields are lowercased. That's how SOLR namings are.