Steps to Install Apache Solr on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Apache Solr is a free & open source search platform that is written on Java.It provides full-text search, spell suggestions, custom document ordering and ranking, Snippet generation, and highlighting.

There are some steps to install Apache Solr on Ubuntu:

Step 1: Update the System.

apt-get update

Step 2: Install JAVA.

apt install openjdk-11-jdk

• Check Java version.

java -version

• Here is the command output.

Step 3: Download & Install Apache Solr on system.

wget https://downloads.apache.org/lucene/solr/8.11.1/solr-8.11.1.tgz

• Here is the command output.

• Extract the downloaded folder & Run the Apache Solr service installer script file.

tar xvf solr-8.11.1.tgz solr-8.11.1/bin/install_solr_service.sh --strip-components=2
bash ./install_solr_service.sh solr-8.11.1.tgz

• Here is the command output.

Step 4: Start the Apache Solr.

systemctl start solr

• Check Apache Solr Status.

systemctl status solr

Step 5: Create a Collection.

sudo su - solr -c "/opt/solr/bin/solr create -c mycollection -n data_driven_schema_configs"

• Here is the command output.

Step 5: Open the following port number in UFW firewall.

ufw allow 8983

• Here is the command output.

Step 7: Open Apache Solr web interface.

http://server-ip:8983

• Here is the output.
• Click on Core selector option.

• Select Created Collection name “mycollection”.

• Here is the statics of the selected collection.