Solr instance for sitecore 7

Question

I am trying to implement solr into sitecore but could not find any way for creating a Solr instance for the same. I have few PDFs from SDN I could find any way to create Solr instance in any. Considering that I am new to CMS I hope I could get some help here. Thank you

Answer 1

There are lots of resources available for setting up Solr, and integrating Sitecore.

Essentially Sitecore is ignorant with respects to how you setup Solr (barring a few exceptions), so you need to follow standard methods to set Solr up. If you are doing this on your local machine, then I recommend you simply download Solr and get it running through the provided Jetty App Server.

Once Solr is running, download the Solr Extensions from SDN, then follow the search scaling guide to integrate Solr. This really only boils down to the following;

• Remove Lucene config files
• Add Solr config files and binaries
• Add Solr endpoint into relevant config
• Generate Solr Schema via Sitecore -> Control Panel -> Search (within Sitecore)
• Add Schema file to Solr Core configuration
• et voila

There is a great guide here: http://www.dansolovay.com/2013/05/setting-up-solr-with-sitecore-7.html