This is a set of convenience scripts for daily drupal use of solr in a dev environment. When you use the apachesolr module in many projects it becomes somewhat boring to set up solr again and again. And when you have a whole team doing the same thing, this script becomes a time-saver.

This little project lives at github (as usual): http://github.com/hugowetterberg/solr_nightly. Clone or download and execute get-nightly from the terminal (when inside the solr_nightly directory) to download the latest nightly and set it up with the drupal-specific configuration files.

$ ./get-nightly

Then execute start to get solr up and running.

$ ./start

Now your drupal install should be able to use solr through the apachesolr module. Press ctrl+c to quit solr. If you want to clear out all files that's been created for the search index and other runtime files (to use it with another drupal install, or just to start over), run:

$ ./reset

Remember to delete the index from the drupal admin when you have a site that expects that there is a index. Otherwise your nodes won't be re-added.

Re-run the get-nightly script if you want to download the nightly again.