Rails 4 - Sunspot - Solr - Tomcat

instructions.md

Instructions

Install OpenJDK

sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-7-jdk
sudo mkdir /usr/java
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 /usr/java/default

Install Tomcat

sudo apt-get install tomcat7
sudo apt-get install tomcat7-admin

Install Solr

sudo wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/4.8.1/solr-4.8.1.tgz
sudo tar -xvf solr-4.8.1.tgz 
sudo cp -R solr-4.8.1/example/ /opt/solr

Setup Solr with Tomcat

sudo cp -R /opt/solr/lib/ext/* /usr/share/tomcat7/lib/
sudo cp /opt/solr/webapps/solr.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/solr.war
sudo cp -R /opt/solr /var/lib/tomcat7
sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/solr
service tomcat7 restart

cd /var/lib/tomcat7/solr
sudo mkdir <my_collection>
cd <my_collection>
sudo mkdir data
sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/solr

Setup Rails

cp <RAILS_ROOT>/solr/conf/schema.xml /var/lib/tomcat7/solr/<my_collection>
cp <RAILS_ROOT>/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml /var/lib/tomcat7/solr/<my_collection>

sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/solr
sudo service tomcat7 restart

sunspot.yml

### config/sunspot.yml

    production:
      solr:
        hostname: localhost
        port: 8080
        log_level: WARNING
        path: /solr/my_collection
        # read_timeout: 2
        # open_timeout: 0.5

and I also needed to add my core
curl "http://localhost:8080/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=production&instanceDir=production&config=solrconfig.xml&schema=schema.xml&dataDir=data&persist=true"

persist=truemakes the magic, otherwise every time you restar server you lost your core conf