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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Running Solr


Let's start with running and configuring our Solr. We will see several ways of running Solr, some configurations needed for Solr to be in production mode, and more. The following topics will be covered:

  • Solr startup
  • Production-level Solr setup and configurations

Running basic Solr commands

Earlier, we started Solr in interactive mode, where we picked up the cloud as the default config set. Let's revisit the Solr startup commands.

If you want to start Solr with a custom port, then you can use the following command:

bin\solr.cmd start -p 8984

Note

Based on your operating system, you have to use bin/solr or bin\solr.cmd.

Similar to start, there's a command stop. To stop Solr, simply use the following command:

bin\solr.cmd stop -all

The -all parameter stops all Solr instances; if you want to stop a specific port, then pass that port number with an argument with parameter -p. Let's say you start Solr with any key; then you can stop that particular instance by passing the key as a parameter...