Guide for configure Tomcat6, Solr 1.4, Sunspot for Rails Application on Ubuntu 8.04 or 10.04

1. Install the Java JRE and Ant

for ubuntu 8.04

add the following sources to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

for ubuntu 10.04


sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk ant sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre

2. Change into the /opt director

$ cd /opt

3. Download tomcat (at the time v6.0.35)

$ sudo wget http://opensource.become.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.35/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.35.tar.gz

4. Unpack tomcat

$ sudo tar -xzvf apache-tomcat-6.0.35.tar.gz

5. Rename the tomcat directory

$ sudo mv apache-tomcat-6.0.35 tomcat6

6. Recursively set the moonshine/capistrano user to own the tomcat6 directory

$ sudo chown -R rails:rails /opt/tomcat6

7. Edit the tomcat users list

$ sudo pico /opt/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml

add the following:


<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager,admin"/>

choose a more secure password for the tomcat user

8. Test Tomcat works with the following: (localhost:8080)

$ sudo /opt/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh run

use ctrl+c to stop tomcat

9. Change into the /etc/init.d directory

$ cd /etc/init.d

10. Paste this into a file in /etc/init.d called tomcat6 – https://gist.github.com/3285426


#!/bin/sh

	Tomcat Startup Script

CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat6; export CATALINA_HOME

JAVA_HOME=/usr; export JAVA_HOME

TOMCAT_OWNER=rails; export TOMCAT_OWNER
start() {

        echo -n "Starting Tomcat:  "

        su $TOMCAT_OWNER -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

        sleep 2

}

stop() {

        echo -n "Stopping Tomcat: "

        su $TOMCAT_OWNER -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

}
case “$1” in

  start)

        start

        ;;

  stop)

        stop

        ;;

  restart)

        stop

        start

        ;;

  *)

        echo $“Usage: tomcat {start|stop|restart}”

        exit

esac

11. Make the file executable

$ sudo chmod +x tomcat6

12. Start tomcat to make sure the script works

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start

13. Make sure the stop script works

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 stop

14. Add the service to start on boot

$ sudo update-rc.d tomcat6 defaults

15. Download Solr 1.4

$ sudo wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/1.4.0/apache-solr-1.4.0.tgz

16. Unpack Solr

$ sudo tar -xzvf apache-solr-1.4.0.tgz

17. Move into the apache-solr dir

$ cd /opt/apache-solr-1.4.0

18. Build the .war file under dist

$ sudo ant dist

19. Build the example solr

$ sudo ant example

20. Test the solr example:

move into the example directory
```
$ cd /opt/apache-solr-1.4.0/example
```
start the jetty server
```
$ sudo java -jar start.jar
```
visit localhost:8983/solr/admin
stop the jetty server (crtl+c)

21. Change back to the /opt directory

$ cd /opt

22. Make a solr directory

$ sudo mkdir /opt/solr

23. Change into the new solr directory

$ cd /opt/solr

24. Make a solr index directory

$ sudo mkdir /opt/solr/example

25. Change back to the /opt directory

$ cd /opt

26. Copy the contents of /opt/apache-solr-1.4.0/example project to your new solr/example folder

$ sudo cp -r /opt/apache-solr-1.4.0/example/solr/* solr/example

27. Copy the apache-solr dist war file to you example folder

$ sudo cp /opt/apache-solr-1.4.0/dist/apache-solr-1.4.0.war solr/example/

28. Edit (or create if necessary) the Tomcat solr.xml file:

$ sudo pico /opt/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml

add the following:


    <Context docBase="/opt/solr/example/apache-solr-1.4.0.war" debug="0" crossContext="true">
      <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="/opt/solr/example" override="true"/>
    </Context>

29. Make sure that file is owned by the mooshine/capistrano user:

$ sudo chown rails:rails /opt/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml

30. Copy solrconfig.xml file from the sunspot gem

$ sudo  cp RAILS_APP/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml /opt/solr/example/conf/solrconfig.xml

31. Edit the dataDir for the solr/example project

$ sudo pico /opt/solr/example/conf/solrconfig.xml

look for the following line:

<dataDir>${solr.data.dir:./solr/data}</dataDir>

change that line to:

<dataDir>${solr.data.dir:/opt/solr/example/data}</dataDir>

32. Copy schema.xml file from the sunspot gem

$ sudo cp RAILS_APP/solr/conf/schema.xml /opt/solr/example/conf/schema.xml

33. Ensure that the /opt/solr and /opt/tomcat6 directory is owned by the mooshine/capistrano user

$ sudo chown -R rails:rails /opt/*

34. Start the tomcat server

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start

35: Visit your solr admin!

open browser to: localhost:8080/solr/admin (or whatever the server’s domain may be)

36: Security tomcat for accepts just local request

add to file /opt/tomcat6/context.xml

$ sudo pico /opt/tomcat6/conf/context.xml

and add this

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="127\.0\.0\.1"/>

OPTIONAL

*tomcat.god

%w{8080}.each do |port|
  God.watch do |w|
    w.name = "tomcat"
    w.interval = 30.seconds # default
    w.start = "/etc/init.d/tomcat6 start"
    w.stop = "/etc/init.d/tomcat6 stop"
    w.restart = "/etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart"
    w.start_grace = 10.seconds
    w.restart_grace = 10.seconds

    w.start_if do |start|
      start.condition(:process_running) do |c|
          c.interval = 5.seconds
          c.running = false
      end
    end
  end
end

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Guide for configure Tomcat6, Solr 1.4, Sunspot for Rails Application on Ubuntu 8.04 or 10.04

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