How to run Solr inside Eclipse?

Question

I have to work with Solr, which I'll use from another webapp to index and search documents.
I thought I could run an instance of it inside Eclipse, alongside my web application, but if I import the Solr war, Eclipse will unpack it in a web project.
Is there a way to keep it as a War and just have it deployer inside a Tomcat server instance (in the IDE)?

Or is there a better (easier) way to do what I want to do? Basically I want a running instance of Solr to which I can connect and operate from the web application I'm developing.

Answer 1

We are keeping our Solr configurations together with the according war file within an Eclipse project. I will refer to this project as your project here. That way we keep everything together in one place

• the war file
• the index
• the configurations

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What you need to do is

1) Create an empty tomcat server within eclipse

2) Add -Dsolr.solr.home=${resource_loc:/<your project here>/solr/home} to the VM arguments of that tomcat

3) Add the solr war file as <Context> to the server.xml of that tomcat