Important Apache Solr 6+ Commands for Windows

Sometimes what we really need is a quick reference to common commands we use on a somewhat-daily basis.

We are a Windows shop and sometimes Windows doesn't receive the same love as the *nix world in Solr.

Note that most of these commands are to be executed from the root directory of your Apache Solr installation (or solr-src\solr directory if you compiled from source).  This article will be updated as we get more involved with Apache Solr.  Not all of these commands are Windows-specific, but many are.

ZooKeeper

Solr Cloud

One thing that's unique about Solr Cloud is that everything is in a "cloud," so instead of editing a file on the filesystem, you are expected to use the Config API or download and upload the config file to be distributed throughout the cloud.  That process took a while to discover.  The procedure is to download the working version of the solr cloud solrconfig.xml, put it in source control (optional, but recommended), make your changes, then push those changes back to the cloud by uploading the file to ZooKeeper and check back into source control.

Download the solrconfig.xml for the gettingstarted collection

server\scripts\cloud-scripts\zkcli.bat -cmd getfile /configs/gettingstarted/solrconfig.xml solrconfiglocal.xml -zkhost localhost:9983

Upload the solrconfig.xml for the gettingstarted collection

server\scripts\cloud-scripts\zkcli.bat -cmd putfile /configs/gettingstarted/solrconfig.xml solrconfiglocal.xml -zkhost localhost:9983

Apache Solr

Management

Start

Start Solr for the first time to create a cloud collection (called gettingstarted [default name]).  Also used to start it after the first time (which created it).

(from solr dir)

bin\solr.cmd start -e cloud -noprompt

Stop

bin\solr.cmd stop -all

Index documents (from the file system)

java -Dc=gettingstarted -Dauto=yes -Drecursive=yes -jar example\exampledocs\post.jar example\exampledocs

Search

Use a different query parser

Let's say you want to use the surround query parser, which comes with Solr.

q={!surround}test