Setup Apache Solr on Windows with Jetty Running as a Service via NSSM
Initial Solr Setup
- Install the latest Java JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. Make sure to select 64bit version if you need it.
- Download Solr 1.4.1 from one of the mirrors at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ (at the time of writing, not all mirrors seem to be hosting 1.4.1, but most seem to have at least 1.4.0)
- Unzip the Solr download. You should have the files listed in the image below. Open the example folder.
- Copy the etc, lib, logs, solr, webapps, and start.jar folders to C:\solr (you will need to create the folder at C:\solr)
- Now open the C:\solr\solr folder and copy the contents
back to the root C:\solr folder. When you are done you can delete the
C:\solr\solr folder.
- At this point your C:\solr directory should look like the image below.
- Solr can now be run at this point if you start it from the command line. Change your directory to c:\solr and then run: java -Dsolr.solr.home=c:/solr/ -jar start.jar <= slash direction seems to matter
- If you go to http://localhost:8983/solr/ you should be greeted with the Welcome to Solr message.
Setup Jetty to Run as a Windows Service using NSSM
Now that Solr is up and running, we can work on getting Jetty to run as a Windows service. Since Jetty comes bundled with Solr, all we need is a way to run it as a service. There are several options to do this, but the one that I have found works the best and is the most compatible across windows environments is NSSM – the Non Sucking Service.Once you download NSSM, open the win32 or win64 folder as appropriate and copy nssm.exe to your c:\solr folder.
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- Open an elevated command prompt and change the directory to C:\solr. and then run: nssm install Solr
- A dialog will open. Select java.exe as the Application located at C:\Windows\System32\
- In the options input box enter: -Dsolr.solr.home=C:/solr/
-Djetty.home=C:/solr/ -Djetty.logs=C:/solr/logs/ -cp
C:/solr/lib/*.jar;C:/solr/start.jar -jar C:/solr/start.jar
- Important! If you copy and paste the line above make sure to take out the line break.
- Click Install service. You should get a Service successfully installed message.
- Finally run: net start Solr
- Jetty should now be running as a service. Check by going to http://localhost:/8983/solr
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