Here’s the steps
1. Get your Tomcat installed and TOMCAT_HOME system variable defined
2. Modify server.xml from TOMCAT_HOME\conf\ as below
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
3. Add solr.xml into TOMCAT_HOME\conf\Catalina\localhost with content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Context docBase="D:/dev/apache/tomcat60/webapps/solr.war" debug="0" crossContext="true">
<Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="D:/dev/apache/solr/example/solr" override="true"/>
</Context>
4. Extract solr4.5.1.zip into D:/dev/apache/solr
5. Copy jars under D:\dev\apache\solr\example\lib\ext into TOMCAT_HOME\lib
6. Copy D:\dev\apache\solr\example\resources\log4j.properties into TOMCAT_HOME\lib
7. Start the tomcat service
Exception:
if you get to see error message below, check the apache wiki for a solution http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrLogging
SEVERE: Error filterStart
