Home/ Questions/Q 8124661
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-06T06:31:51+00:00

I have followed this guide to install Solr in TomCat running on Windows Server

  • 0

I have followed this guide to install Solr in TomCat running on Windows Server 2008 R2.

http://drupal.org/node/1359598

As described in step 6 of the guide I can run Solr from the command line using the following:

java -Dsolr.solr.home=c:/solr/ -jar start.jar

As expected I can now see Solr at http://localhost:8983/solr/

If I reboot the server Solr does not start automatically. I have to run the start.jar file via the command line as shown above.

I have tried adding the following to the Java Options in the Configure TomCat UI.

-Dsolr.solr.home=c:\solr

This doesn’t work. The only way I can run Solr is to use the command line. I’m sure that this is a simple problem to resolve but I can’t work it out. Does anyone have any idea what I’ve configured incorrectly?

My technology stack is:

  • JRE 7
  • TomCat 7.0
  • Solr 3.6.0
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (IIS 7.5)
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Default servlet container in solr is jetty, not tomcat. So when you are running java -jar start.jar you are starting jetty.

    Please refer to the following doc on running solr with tomcat .

    Once you have done this, to start tomcat as a service that automatically restarts follow this doc http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html

    • 0