Intro

Solr can be run on Amazon's EC2.

Instructions

:TODO: Fill in instructions once 1.3.0 is up and we create a public image for others to use.

For people new to Solr:

1. Get the instance launched.
2. SSH to the server.
3. type: cd /opt/apache-solr-1.3.0/example
4. type: java -jar start.jar
5. Your instance will now be running.
6. Get your public DNS information.

7. Paste your public DNS information to browser and add http://public-dns:8983/solr/admin/

Feel free to remove this information with better instructions. This is for people who have never run solr.

Opening Ports

By default, port 8983 may not be open. However, if you have Elasticfox Firefox plugin installed you can add it via the Security Groups tab. Alternatively if you are using the ec2 command line tools you can open . If you want to just run on port 80, which is open, then start it via java -Djetty.port=80 -jar start.jar.

Thanks

These results are made possible through the generous support of Amazon Web Services Apache Projects Testing Program.

I have created a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) with the id of ami-8f07e0e6 and manifest description "mahaya-images/mahaya-solr-lucene-server-1.3.0-20090318.manifest.xml". Please feel free to use this image as a baseline for the Solr cloud effort. The Solr version installed on the AMI is 1.3.0 with Java 1.6 and the operating system is Fedora-8.

The Solr and Java JDK directories are in the /opt directory.

In addition I have created a second example directory named example7574 which can be used to launch a second Solr server(in addition to the default instance on port 8983) on the same instance to test sharding.

I also took the liberty of adding an additional *.xml file to the exampleDocs directory named 'kindle.xml' since this is 'Amazon' EC2:)

Please let me know if I can be of assistance.

Cheers, Donald Mahaya