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Reputation: 2884

How to Install Solr to use with Haystack in Django

I'm installing Solr to be used with Haystack / Django.

How do I go about installing Solr? Do I need to follow the online instructions exactly and install services like Tomcat?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 771

Answers (1)

Francis Yaconiello
Francis Yaconiello

Reputation: 10939

The above questions I just commented make all the difference if you are set on installing / setting this up yourself. OR you could use a hosted service (read: easy).

Try out http://websolr.com I'm loving it.

If you are on OSX and want a local Solr instance just to try out for some development, this is an awesome tutorial: http://realityloop.com/blog/2011/07/19/setting-multicore-apache-solr-os-x-using-homebrew essentially brew install solr, and then some configuration.

If you are trying to do a production level solr server on a linux operating system, I would suggest working with an instruction set specific to that distribution and the version you are using. OR even better, bite the bullet and pay someomne who knows what they are doing to set it up (make sure your indexes won't fail or go down).

Upvotes: 1

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