IIS web server and Solr integration

[Tim Archambault <ta...@bangordailynews.net>]

Looking to use Solr, but in Dedicated Windows environment.

Can anyone provide me some input as to how this can be done?

If it can, do you recommend Jetty, Tomcat, other?

Should it run on a separate port than IIS or integrated using ISAPI plug-in?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Our site isn't huge traffic 4 million page
views per month (GA) and about 20,000 visitors per day.

Thanks,

Tim

Re: Re: Re: IIS web server and Solr integration

[Tim Archambault <ta...@bangordailynews.net>]

Thanks Jeff,

I am going to run Solr for our beta site, mobile.bangordailynews.net,
the mobile device version of our site. I'm just running it on Jetty
right now as a completely separate web app under a different port. The
Jetty port is not available on the web. I'm using Coldfusion to "get"
the results.

This will give me a chance to play with it a little. If things work
like I think they will, I will probably buy a Linux-based "VPS"
account and run Tomcat and Solr on it with our hosting provider and
send the requests over to my dedicated server. I'm not much of a
programmer nor do I know anything about Linux, but I think you are
right about this.

Tim


On 9/10/06, Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim -
>
> If you can help it, I would suggest running Solr under Tomcat under Linux.
> Speaking from experience in a mixed mode environment, the Linux/Tomcat/Solr
> implementation just works.  We're not newbies under Linux, but we're also a
> native Windows shop.  The memory management and system availability is just
> outstanding in that stack.
>
> If you must run Windows, Tomcat does integrate with IIS, but be prepared to
> jump through a few hoops.  Spend time on making that combination work, and
> you'll be 90% there....
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -- j
>
> On 9/10/06, Tim Archambault <ta...@bangordailynews.net> wrote:
> >
> > Good news. The rookie did just that. Thanks Chris. Just having a
> > difficult time how to send my query parameters to the engine from
> > Coldfusion [intelligently]. I'm going to download the PHP app and see
> > if I can figure it out. Having lots of fun with this for sure.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On 9/10/06, Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > : Should it run on a separate port than IIS or integrated using ISAPI
> > plug-in?
> > >
> > > I can't make any specific recomendations about Windows or IIS, but i
> > > personally wouldn't Run Solr in the same webserver/appserver that your
> > > users hit -- from a security standpoint, i would protect your solr
> > > instance the same way you would protect a database, let the applications
> > > running in your webserver connect to it and run queries against it, but
> > > don't expose it to the outside world directly.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Hoss
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>

Re: Re: IIS web server and Solr integration

[Jeff Rodenburg <je...@gmail.com>]

Tim -

If you can help it, I would suggest running Solr under Tomcat under Linux.
Speaking from experience in a mixed mode environment, the Linux/Tomcat/Solr
implementation just works.  We're not newbies under Linux, but we're also a
native Windows shop.  The memory management and system availability is just
outstanding in that stack.

If you must run Windows, Tomcat does integrate with IIS, but be prepared to
jump through a few hoops.  Spend time on making that combination work, and
you'll be 90% there....

Hope this helps.

-- j

On 9/10/06, Tim Archambault <ta...@bangordailynews.net> wrote:
>
> Good news. The rookie did just that. Thanks Chris. Just having a
> difficult time how to send my query parameters to the engine from
> Coldfusion [intelligently]. I'm going to download the PHP app and see
> if I can figure it out. Having lots of fun with this for sure.
>
> Tim
>
> On 9/10/06, Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org> wrote:
> >
> > : Should it run on a separate port than IIS or integrated using ISAPI
> plug-in?
> >
> > I can't make any specific recomendations about Windows or IIS, but i
> > personally wouldn't Run Solr in the same webserver/appserver that your
> > users hit -- from a security standpoint, i would protect your solr
> > instance the same way you would protect a database, let the applications
> > running in your webserver connect to it and run queries against it, but
> > don't expose it to the outside world directly.
> >
> >
> > -Hoss
> >
> >
>

Re: Re: IIS web server and Solr integration

[Tim Archambault <ta...@bangordailynews.net>]

Good news. The rookie did just that. Thanks Chris. Just having a
difficult time how to send my query parameters to the engine from
Coldfusion [intelligently]. I'm going to download the PHP app and see
if I can figure it out. Having lots of fun with this for sure.

Tim

On 9/10/06, Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org> wrote:
>
> : Should it run on a separate port than IIS or integrated using ISAPI plug-in?
>
> I can't make any specific recomendations about Windows or IIS, but i
> personally wouldn't Run Solr in the same webserver/appserver that your
> users hit -- from a security standpoint, i would protect your solr
> instance the same way you would protect a database, let the applications
> running in your webserver connect to it and run queries against it, but
> don't expose it to the outside world directly.
>
>
> -Hoss
>
>

Re: IIS web server and Solr integration

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: Should it run on a separate port than IIS or integrated using ISAPI plug-in?

I can't make any specific recomendations about Windows or IIS, but i
personally wouldn't Run Solr in the same webserver/appserver that your
users hit -- from a security standpoint, i would protect your solr
instance the same way you would protect a database, let the applications
running in your webserver connect to it and run queries against it, but
don't expose it to the outside world directly.


-Hoss