The solr admin console, by default, is not secured or password protected. Anyone with the link can access all the details in the console. This post describes the steps required to secure the console. The post assumes that you followed the steps in the following two posts to

1. Install Java and Jetty in the server
2. Install Solr in the server

Our jetty installation is at /opt/jetty which is our java web server. Our solr installation is at /opt/solr which is our search platform.

We need to modify the following three files in order to secure the admin console.

1. /opt/jetty/etc/jetty.xml
2. /opt/jetty/etc/webdefault.xml
3. /opt/jetty/etc/realm.properties

If you are not sure which files are to be edited, run the following command in the server and check for java_home variable...

Solr is a search platform which is built on Apache Lucene. It makes search easier and faster. Solr can be installed along with tomcat or jetty. This post explains the installation based on jetty.

First you should install java and jetty as mentioned in the link here.

We will install solr also in /opt. First download the latest version of solr from https://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/

I am going to download version 4.10.4. Once downloaded, uncompress it and copy the war file from dist directory to jetty webapps folder.

Now, a few more files need to be ...

Jetty is a java web server like tomcat, and java servlet container. This post describes how to install the latest version of Jetty in Ubuntu.

Latest version of Jetty can be downloaded from http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/stable-9/dist/

Jetty requires java and hence the first step is to install java. The latest version of Jetty, as of this writing is Jetty 9.3.8. Check the link here which shows what version of Java is required for the version of Jetty you are installing. If the version of Java does not match the version in which Jetty is compiled, then it will result in version conflict and Jetty will fail to start.

I am going to install Jetty 9.3.8, hence I need JVM 1.8. Login to your ubuntu machine and switch to root. Then issue the following commands to install java in the server.