Took a few steps to get this working.
1. Download Java SDK
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u3-download-1501626.html
2. Download Tomcat 7
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
http://apache.cs.utah.edu/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.25/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.25.exe
3. Download Solr 3.4.0
http://apache.mirrors.airband.net/lucene/Solr/
http://apache.mirrors.airband.net/lucene/Solr/3.4.0/apache-solr-3.4.0.zip
NOTE: Make sure you download 3.4.0 and not 3.5.0.
4. Install the Java SDK
5. Install Tomcat on Windows
6. Verify Tomcat works by trying to browse to http://localhost:8080/
7. Right-click on Tomcat icon in system tray, select stop service
8. Unzip apache-solr-3.4.0.zip to C:\apache-solr-3.4.0
9. Copy C:\apache-solr-3.4.0\example\Solr to C:\Solr
10. Copy C:\apache-solr-3.4.0\dist\apache-solr-3.4.0.war to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps\solr.war
11. Right-click on the Tomcat icon in the system tray, choose configure, Java tab, Java options, add the following line at the end:
-DSolr.Solr.home=C:\Solr
12. Start Tomcat by right-clicking on the system tray and selecting “Start Service”
13. Browse to http://localhost:8080/Solr/ … You should see “Welcome to Solr”.
14. Click on “Solr Admin”. You should see the Solr admin interface.
Solr 3.5 works fine on my Windows 7 x64, I wonder what kind of problems you had with it.
Also you might want to use the included Jetty, especially for development it’s much simpler than a Tomcat setup.
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Comment by Mauricio Scheffer — February 22, 2012 @ 12:39 pm
With 3.5.0, I was getting some strange configuration errors in big h1 type text when trying to access the web interface, but can’t remember exactly what the exact error message was now. I’ll check out Jetty, thanks.
Comment by Mun — February 22, 2012 @ 1:36 pm