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Install Solr 8 under Windows as Service

Here is short explained how to install Solr 8 as Windows service

  1. Download nssm from https://nssm.cc/release/nssm-2.24.zip and extract it to C:\Program Files\nssm
  2. Donwload Solr 8 from https://dlcdn.apache.org/lucene/solr/8.11.2/solr-8.11.2.zip and extract it to C:\web\solr
  3. Java Version 8 or later have to be istalled and JAVA_HOME environment variable set
  4. Create Windows Service solr8. In Windows console as Administrator execute following commands.
    "C:\Program Files\nssm\win64\nssm.exe" install solr8 C:\web\solr\bin\solr.cmd "start -f -p 8983 -Dsolr.ltr.enable=true"
  5. Configuring firewall
    netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Solr 8983/tcp" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8983
  6. "C:\Program Files\nssm\win64\nssm.exe" start solr8
  7. If you want to see the output from Service
    "C:\Program Files\nssm\win64\nssm.exe" set solr8 AppStdout C:\web\solr\logs\service.log
    "C:\Program Files\nssm\win64\nssm.exe" set solr8 AppStderr C:\web\solr\logs\service-error.log
  8. To see admin dashboard go to http://localhost:8983/solr/#/
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