Solr 3.1 released

Version 3.1 of Apache Solr has been released.

Solr 3.1 is based on Lucene 3.1 .

The index structure is different from that in version 1.4

DataImportHandler jars are no longer included in the Solr WAR file.

Solr 3.1 includes support for Spatial search

You can now send updates to the index in JSON format via JsonUpdateRequestHandler

In addition the default XML formatted results and JSON Response Writer for responses in JSON format, there's the CSVResponseWriter for getting results in CSV format.

The Solr UIMA contrib library enables analysis of unstructured data.

Read more about this release at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/#March+2011+-+Solr+3.1+Released

Install Apache Solr on Windows

Download and install lastest Java sdk

Download and install Tomcat 6

set JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME env variables

download apache solr

Unzip and copy solr-.war to %CATALINA_HOME%/webapps/solr.war

Create Solr_Home where index will be stored ... for this create a JNDI entry solr/home

The easiest way is to copy 'solr' directory from the examples folder that came with your solr download.

start up tomcat and browse to http://localhost:8080/solr/