Chapter 1. Getting Started

We will start this chapter with a quick overview of Solr, followed by a section that helps you get Solr up and running. We will also cover some basic building blocks of the Solr architecture, its directory structure, and its configurations files. This chapter covers following topics:

• Overview and installation of Solr
• Running Solr
• The Solr architecture and directory structure
• Multicore Solr