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
Your post is very detailed and easy. But i am receiving an error while accessing the Solr/Admin page
I receive the following error
missing core name in path
Can you help what could be the reason
Comment by Omer — March 29, 2012 @ 5:26 am
Hi,
I am trying the steps but in step 14 I get this error:
HTTP Status 404 – missing core name in path
type Status report
message missing core name in path
description The requested resource (missing core name in path) is not available.
What I did wrong?
Comment by Tham — July 5, 2012 @ 7:35 am
A very, very nice guide to this, thanks a lot.
Comment by Steve — July 13, 2012 @ 3:47 am
I followed the steps and got the Solr welcome page. There when I clicked I got the error “HTTP Status 404 – missing core name in path” as mentioned by some others. After some searches I found the solution. Go to “C:\Program Files\Apache Software FoundationTomcat 7.0webappssolrWEB-INF” and open the web.xml file. Uncomment the following lines –
<env-entry>
<env-entry-name>solr/home</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-value>/put/your/solr/home/here</env-entry-value>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
</env-entry>
Replace “/put/your/solr/home/here” with “C:\solr”. Restart Tomcat. Now it should work. Hope this helps if you are getting the error.
Comment by Abhijit Dutta — August 10, 2012 @ 9:17 am
In my last comment, the slashes were stripped. Not sure why, guess this comment system sucks!
Comment by Abhijit Dutta — August 10, 2012 @ 9:23 am
This works with the newest distributions of Java, Tomcat and Solr (Version 4).
NOTE though that the out-of-the-box path for solr on the tomcat server is http://localhost:8080/apache-solr-4.0.0/ and not http://localhost:8080/Solr/
Comment by Patrick — November 15, 2012 @ 5:56 am
i setup the newest version all program. Can you tell what is another steps, such as index filesystem an searching
Comment by ozgur — January 16, 2013 @ 4:39 am
I integrated solr for magento enterprise but i am not able to see left side catalog navigation on search result plz suggest me what should i do or what i missed in installation
Comment by chhots — April 3, 2013 @ 8:34 am