On RHEL and CentOS.

Last updated October 5, 2010. Created by jvandyk on August 10, 2009.
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Attached is a startup script for RHEL / CentOS that will start your Apache Solr server at startup and cleanly shut it down at shutdown.

Download the script attached to this page, rename it to "solr", and put it at /etc/init.d/solr.

Edit the line starting with SOLR_DIR to make sure it's pointing to the location where your solr installation lives.

Make the script executable:

sudo chmod a+rx /etc/init.d/solr

Now install the script using chkconfig:

sudo chkconfig --add solr

This will add the script to runlevels 3 and 5, so solr will start once the system is up. Check to make sure that things are properly set up by typing

chkconfig --list

You should see solr among the various services. You should also be able to use the service command to stop and start solr:

sudo service solr stop
Stopping Solr

sudo service solr start
Starting Solr

sudo service solr restart
Stopping Solr
Starting Solr

Attachment	Size
solr.txt (rename this to solr and put in /etc/init.d)	664 bytes

Comments

Another note: If you start

Posted by geerlingguy on December 18, 2009 at 8:12pm

Another note: If you start getting the error below, you'll need to add a minimum memory value to the script you place in /etc/init.d/solr

Here's the error:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap

Here's the fix (in the JAVA_OPTIONS line):

JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xms128m -Xmx256m -DSTOP.PORT=8079 -DSTOP.KEY=mustard -jar start.jar"

You can change the Xms (minimum) or Xmx (maximum) memory values as you see fit. These memory values work great on my server running two drupal sites that get moderate traffic and only a few searches /new nodes per hour.

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Thanks. I had this problem

Posted by zazinteractive on May 22, 2011 at 5:33am

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Thanks!

Posted by pamster on August 3, 2010 at 7:39pm

Great tutorial

Unable to get the script to create an instance of apache-solr

Posted by protoplasm on August 5, 2010 at 2:54pm

I have followed the instructions above exactly and I get a screen that says Starting and/or Stopping solr service. But it never goes through all the printout like it does when the commands are typed manually java -jar start.jar at the apache-solr/example prompt. Permissions of the folder are 755 and I tried changing ownership and moving the example directory around, but no luck. I'm using apache 2.2.14 on centos. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I can manually get this to work without the script--just can't get it to work automatically or manually via sudo service solr start.
Thanks--

Ok, I finally got this script to work. The problem was the path to java. Using whereis--I was trying usr/share/java since usr/bin/java didn't exist. oops.
The location of my java was /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_17/jre/bin/java.

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Automatic apache solr start on boot

Posted by protoplasm on September 2, 2010 at 2:43pm

This works manually to start and stop, but I can't get it to work automatically to start apache solr on an apache automagic restart on a Centos apache 2.2 server. Any suggestions appreciated.

UPDATE: Finally got this to work automatically on an apache reboot. I believe the problem was related to the file owner of where I placed the solr distribution with the example file. When I placed it in a location (opt) that had root ownership, then it worked automatically with apache reboot.

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The example starts the solr

Posted by Jax on October 13, 2010 at 11:41am

The example starts the solr service under the root user. How to get it running by another user? If I use sudo it works when starting it manually but it fails on reboot since there is no terminal available.

You use edit your sudoers

Posted by alanthing on October 29, 2010 at 4:28pm

You can edit your sudoers file to allow your solr (or other) user to not require a tty: http://serverfault.com/questions/111064/sudoers-how-to-disable-requirett...

Full path to chkconfig and service

Posted by naxoc on December 7, 2010 at 11:09am

On my CentOS box the chkconfig and service commands are not in path, so I had to supply the full path. If you run into trouble having messages like sudo: chkconfig: command not found, simply use the full path:

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add solr
/sbin/chkconfig --list
sudo /sbin/service solr stop

Other than that this works like a charm :)

Great help

Posted by tsbah on February 10, 2011 at 9:15pm

This is a great resource. I had to create the /var/solr directory and the /var/log/solr file.

After that, everything went fine. Now I can issue the service commands [start|stop|restart]. A fourth option, available with the httpd daemon, is status. It'd be nice to have it with the Solr server.

Thanks

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service solr does not support chkconfig

Posted by aerodub on May 9, 2011 at 8:35am

if the above message appears on your CentOs box
add the following lines after bin/bash

# chkconfig: 2345 95 20
# description: Some description
# What your script does (not sure if this is necessary though)
# processname: myscript

for more see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2150767/how-to-start-solr-automatically

thx

Posted by NadimBak on December 26, 2011 at 6:05pm

thanks, you saved my day

solr.txt file format

Posted by Bacteria Man on September 22, 2011 at 5:50pm

If the message "bad interpreter: No such file or directory" appears when attempting to execute the attached script, you need to change the file format by following the instructions found here:

http://www.gizmola.com/blog/archives/87-Linux-shell-scripting-bad-interp...