Understanding Solr and Admin Console

We have seen how to download and install from our previous posts, Now its time to Understand it further.
After unzipping into the Folder Observe the Folder Structure.

Folder Structure

C:\Dev\solr-7.5.0\

bin> This will be having the Command Files. From where we will start/stop the Solr.

Contrib> This Will have add-on plugins for specialized features of Solr

dist> This will have the main Solr .jar files.

docs> This will have the link for the online documentation.

example> This will have the example docs which can be used for learning and getting started purpose.

licenses> The licenses directory includes all of the licenses for 3rd party libraries used by Solr.

server> This is the core of the Solr, Official documentation defines it as a heart. This will have the Following

server>solr-webapp> -->Solr’s Admin UI

server>lib> -->Jetty libraries

server>logs> -->Log files

server>solr>configsets> --> Sample configsets

Solr Admin UI.

Solr has the default admin UI that can be accessed via the port number 8983

http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/ or http://localhost:8983/solr/ 

This will have the core selector, Logging, Schema selection, Query  Execution, memory stats and more. For the developers from Endeca, it can also Similar to the jspref Orange Application in Endeca, with more features.

Happy Structuring !!!