Apache solr for drupal on debian

Posted on 26-02-2010, 13:33, by edo, under Linux, apache, drupal.

Installing apache solr with tomcat6 on debian in /usr/local (based on http://xdeb.org/node/1213)

Change /etc/apt/sources.list so that non-free packages can be used:

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deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

Install Java:

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apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Install Tomcat6 to /usr/local:

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cd /usr/src
wget http://apache.osuosl.org/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.24/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.24.tar.gz
tar xzf apache-tomcat-6.0.24.tar.gz
mv apache-tomcat-6.0.24 /usr/local/tomcat6

Install Solr:

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cd /usr/src
wget http://apache.osuosl.org/lucene/solr/1.4.0/apache-solr-1.4.0.tgz
cp ./apache-solr-1.4.0/dist/apache-solr-1.4.0.war /usr/local/tomcat6/webapps/solr.war
cp -r ./apache-solr-1.4.0/example/solr /usr/local/solr
mkdir -p /usr/local/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/localhost/
pico /usr/local/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml

Now add the configuration here:

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<Context docBase="/usr/local/tomcat6/webapps/solr.war" debug="0" crossContext="true" >  
  <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="/usr/local/solr" override="true" />
</Context>

Edit pico /usr/local/tomcat6/conf/server.xml and change the Connector tag to:

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    <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443"
               address="127.0.0.1"
               URIEncoding="UTF-8" />

Add the tomcat service to the system:

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echo "ENABLED=1" > /etc/default/tomcat

Add the init.d startup script to /etc/init.d/tomcat:

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# Tomcat auto-start
## description: Auto-starts tomcat
# processname: tomcat
# pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid
ENABLED=0
if [ -f /etc/default/tomcat ]; then  
  . /etc/default/tomcat
fi
if [ "$ENABLED" = "0" ]; then  
  exit 0
fi
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre
export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsolr.solr.home=/usr/local/solr"
export CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms64m -Xmx64m"
case $1 in
start)  
  sh /usr/local/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh  
  ;;
stop)  
  sh /usr/local/tomcat6/bin/shutdown.sh  
  ;;
restart)  
  sh /usr/local/tomcat6/bin/shutdown.sh  
  sh /usr/local/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh  
  ;;
esac
exit 0

Add tomcat user and give ownership:

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adduser --shell /bin/false tomcat tomcat
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/tomcat6
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/sol
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