How to start using Solr

[Khooroos <am...@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I'm new to Solr and have been reading online about it to get started for the
past few days.

Here are a few questions that I need help getting answer to:

1) Is my understanding of how Solr works correct:
- From what I gather so far, I need to run the start.jar (which runs the
server) as a daemon on my server or dev machine and post, and get XML data
from it. (i.e treat it as a service provider).

2) If I develop an application using a frame work (whether it be PHP,
Grails, Rails, .NET), I still need to deploy two things to production: (i)
the app code, and (ii) the Solr server instance.  Am I correct about this?

3) Based on (2) above, it means that for hosting options I would either need
a dedicated server or a virtual hosting that enables me not only run a web
app in their hosted Apache, IIS, or Tomcat, but also run the
startup.jar/post.jar Solr server as a daemon. If this is correct, then can
someone point me to some hosting companies that do offer such level of
services?

Thanks in advance,
any help is indeed appreciated,

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Re: How to start using Solr

[Lance Norskog <go...@gmail.com>]

Java 1.6. Also decide if you need 32-bit java (limited to 2G of jvm)
or 64-bit. Some kind of log file rolling or size control.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:56 AM, nfire <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Glad that I found this thread, I was searching for this issue throughout the
> forum.
>
> Does this mean that if I host my website on a Virtual Private Server, will
> it be okay if I ask my hosting provider for Windows Server (since the
> website was developed using asp.net) and Apache Tomcat installed? Are there
> any other requirements that I should ask for.
>
> Thank you.
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Re: How to start using Solr

[nfire <ma...@gmail.com>]

Glad that I found this thread, I was searching for this issue throughout the
forum. 

Does this mean that if I host my website on a Virtual Private Server, will
it be okay if I ask my hosting provider for Windows Server (since the
website was developed using asp.net) and Apache Tomcat installed? Are there
any other requirements that I should ask for.

Thank you.
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Re: How to start using Solr

[Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>]

Khooroos wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to Solr and have been reading online about it to get started for the
> past few days.
>
> Here are a few questions that I need help getting answer to:
>
> 1) Is my understanding of how Solr works correct:
> - From what I gather so far, I need to run the start.jar (which runs the
> server) as a daemon on my server or dev machine and post, and get XML data
> from it. (i.e treat it as a service provider).
>   
Thats the standard way. There is also an embedded mode that you can use
to run Solr in your application, but
the separate "service" model is likely the way to go.
> 2) If I develop an application using a frame work (whether it be PHP,
> Grails, Rails, .NET), I still need to deploy two things to production: (i)
> the app code, and (ii) the Solr server instance.  Am I correct about this?
>   
See previous comment. Basically, yes.
> 3) Based on (2) above, it means that for hosting options I would either need
> a dedicated server or a virtual hosting that enables me not only run a web
> app in their hosted Apache, IIS, or Tomcat, but also run the
> startup.jar/post.jar Solr server as a daemon. If this is correct, then can
> someone point me to some hosting companies that do offer such level of
> services?
>   
Not necessarily. startup.jar just starts the included Jetty servlet
container, which contains the Solr war. You just need a provider that
will let you use the war file. And post.jar is just some simple code to
help you post XML to Solr - you could do that from a local machine at
your house. And their are plenty of ways to post documents to servers
without post.jar. Its just an example piece to get you going. You can
also load data locally on the Solr Server without posting if your server
environment allows you such access to the server (like a virtual server
option would).
> Thanks in advance,
> any help is indeed appreciated,
>
>   


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