CENTOS + SOLR 6.0 Installation

Things have changed in SOLR 6. I modified the iSOLR startup script to use the new solr start up routine...not sure if this is the right thing to do but it seems to work.

http://idroot.net/tutorials/how-to-install-apache-solr-on-centos-7/

http://yonik.com/solr-tutorial/

http://yonik.com/

wget http://apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/KEYS
gpg --import KEYS

# get the .asc and .sha1 files from the Apache server
mv Downloads/solr-6.6.1.tgz
gpg -verify solr-6.6.1.tgz.asc solr-6.6.1.tgz
sha1sum solr-6.6.1.tgz
tar xvf solr-6.6.1.tgz
sudo mv solr-6.6.1 opt/solrsudo mv solr-6.6.1 /opt/solr

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8983/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmdreload

/opt/solr/bin/solr start

# test
https://serverfault.com/questions/551512/make-solr-server-accessible-on-network

wget -qO- http://localhost:8983/solr 

sudo  netstat -anp | grep :8983

telnet 127.0.0.1 8983

# In a browser

http://localhost:8983/solr/


##########################################3


 #!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 2345 20 20
# short-description: Solr
# description: Startup script for Apache Solr Server

SOLR_DIR="/opt/solr/core"
SOLR_BIN_DIR="/opt/solr/bin"
SOLR=$SOLR_BIN_DIR/solr
LOG_FILE="/var/log/solr.log"
START_JAR=/opt/solr/server/start.jar
JAVA="/usr/bin/java "

start() {
echo -n "Starting Solr... "
cd $SOLR_DIR
$JAVA $SOLR start > $LOG_FILE 2>&1 &
sleep 5
RETVAL=$?

    if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
    then
        echo "done."
    else
        echo "failed. See error code for more information."
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
echo -n "Stopping Solr... "
$JAVA $SOLR start > $LOG_FILE 2>&1 &
RETVAL=$?

    if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
    then
        echo "done."
    else
        echo "failed. See error code for more information."
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: solr {start|stop|restart}"
exit 3
esac
exit $RETVAL