On RHEL and CentOS.

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