Begin by unziping the Solr release and changing your working directory to be the “example” directory. (Note that the base directory name may vary with the version of Solr downloaded.) For example, with a shell in UNIX, Cygwin, or MacOS:

user:~solr$ ls
solr-nightly.zip
user:~solr$ unzip -q solr-nightly.zip
user:~solr$ cd solr-nightly/example/

Solr can run in any Java Servlet Container of your choice, but to simplify this tutorial, the example index includes a small installation of Jetty.

To launch Jetty with the Solr WAR, and the example configs, just run the start.jar …

user:~/solr/example$ java -jar start.jar
2009-10-23 16:42:53.816::INFO:  Logging to STDERR via org.mortbay.log.StdErrLog
2009-10-23 16:42:53.907::INFO:  jetty-6.1.3

...

Oct 23, 2009 4:41:56 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore registerSearcher
INFO: [] Registered new searcher Searcher@7c3885 main

This will start up the Jetty application server on port 8983, and use your terminal to display the logging information from Solr.

You can see that the Solr is running by loading http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/ in your web browser. This is the main starting point for Administering Solr.

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html