Installing Apache Solr

Apache Solr is an open source, enterprise search platform that can greatly enhance the search functionality of your KommerceServer system. The help topics included here address the installation process of Solr from a KommerceServer administration perspective. You can view additional documentation for installing Solr here.

Installing Apache Solr on your KommerceServer web server involves the following steps:

1. Install Java on your web server (skip this step if Java is already installed).
2. Install version 5.4.1 of Apache Solr.
3. Create a core directory on the Apache Solr UI.
4. Copy core configuration files to your Solr directory.
5. Update the db-data-config file with your database connection information.
6. Start Solr from the Solr/bin directory.
7. Create a Solr Core.
8. Perform a full data import using the Solr UI.
9. Modify the web.config file in KommerceServer.
10. Create a task via the Windows Task Scheduler to ensure that Solr launches each time the web server starts up.