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This is a guide on installing an Apache Solr instance on FreeBSD 11.

Prepare the Environment¶

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  pkg update && pkg upgrade
  

Install Apache Solr¶

• Install solr and jetty:
  

  pkg install apache-solr
  

The port is configured to listen only on localhost, port 8983.

• Create an initial config:
  

  cp -R /usr/local/solr/example/example-DIH/solr/solr /var/db/solr/
  chown -R www /var/db/solr/solr
  

• Create a new core from the examples:
  

  mkdir /var/db/solr/new_core
  cp -r /usr/local/solr/example/files/conf /var/db/solr/new_core/
  

• Start and enable solr at boot:
  

  sysrc solr_enable="YES" 
  service solr start
  

• Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8983/solr/admin

OCR With Tesseract¶

• To enable using Tesseract, just install it:
  

  pkg install tesseract
  

• And restart solr:
  

  service solr restart
  

Yeah, its that simple!

Resources¶

• https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/installing-solr.html
• https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall
• https://mikkel.hoegh.org/2011/07/24/install-multicore-apache-solr-freebsd-jetty
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43017921/configure-tesseract-with-solr-6-4-1