Setting up a distributed search

Let us create a new Solr instance that we will use as a separate shard. Go to the directory where Solr is installed and create a copy of the example folder, example2. This creates a new instance of Solr where the index and schema are copied. Now start the Solr server inside the example2 folder. We have a new Solr instance running on port 8983. Our earlier instance is running on port 8080.

Note

The corresponding commands for Linux users are:

  cd <Solr home>
  cp –r example example2
  cd example2
  java -jar start.jar –Djetty.port=8983

For Windows users, you can simply copy the example folder using Windows Explorer and then run java-jar start.jar –Djetty.port=8983 in command prompt after cd to example2 folder.

To kill an existing server press Ctrl + C on your command prompt where the Solr server is running.

To check the Solr instance go to http://localhost:8983/solr/.

Since we have copied the index as well, the new instance of Solr will have all the documents...