Apache Solr - Basic Commands

After installing Solr, browse to the bin folder in Solr home directory and start Solr using the following command.
[Hadoop@localhost ~]$ cd   
[Hadoop@localhost ~]$ cd Solr/ 
[Hadoop@localhost Solr]$ cd bin/ 
[Hadoop@localhost bin]$ ./Solr start

This command starts Solr in the background, listening on port 8983 by displaying the following message.
Waiting up to 30 seconds to see Solr running on port 8983 [\]   
Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid = 6035). Happy searching!

If you start Solr using the start command, then Solr will start in the background. Instead, you can start Solr in the foreground using the –f option.
[Hadoop@localhost bin]$ ./Solr start –f  

5823 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   ] o.a.s.c.SolrResourceLoader 
Adding 'file:/home/Hadoop/Solr/contrib/extraction/lib/xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar' to 
classloader 
5823 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   ] o.a.s.c.SolrResourceLoader 
Adding 'file:/home/Hadoop/Solr/dist/Solr-cell-6.2.0.jar' to classloader 
5823 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   ] o.a.s.c.SolrResourceLoader 
Adding 'file:/home/Hadoop/Solr/contrib/clustering/lib/carrot2-guava-18.0.jar' 
to classloader 
5823 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   ] o.a.s.c.SolrResourceLoader 
Adding 'file:/home/Hadoop/Solr/contrib/clustering/lib/attributes-binder1.3.1.jar' 
to classloader 
5823 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   ] o.a.s.c.SolrResourceLoader 
Adding 'file:/home/Hadoop/Solr/contrib/clustering/lib/simple-xml-2.7.1.jar' 
to classloader 
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12901 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-1) [   x:Solr_sample] o.a.s.u.UpdateLog 
Took 24.0ms to seed version buckets with highest version 1546058939881226240 12902 
INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-1) [   x:Solr_sample] 
o.a.s.c.CoreContainer registering core: Solr_sample 
12904 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   x:my_core] o.a.s.u.UpdateLog Took 
16.0ms to seed version buckets with highest version 1546058939894857728 
12904 INFO  (coreLoadExecutor-6-thread-2) [   x:my_core] o.a.s.c.CoreContainer 
registering core: my_core 

Using –p option of the start command, we can start Solr in another port, as shown in the following code block.
[Hadoop@localhost bin]$ ./Solr start -p 8984  

Waiting up to 30 seconds to see Solr running on port 8984 [-]   
Started Solr server on port 8984 (pid = 10137). Happy searching!

You can stop Solr using the stop command.
$ ./Solr stop

This command stops Solr, displaying a message as shown below.
Sending stop command to Solr running on port 8983 ... waiting 5 seconds to 
allow Jetty process 6035 to stop gracefully.

The restart command of Solr stops Solr for 5 seconds and starts it again. You can restart Solr using the following command −
./Solr restart 

This command restarts Solr, displaying the following message −
Sending stop command to Solr running on port 8983 ... waiting 5 seconds to 
allow Jetty process 6671 to stop gracefully. 
Waiting up to 30 seconds to see Solr running on port 8983 [|]  [/]   
Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid = 6906). Happy searching!

The help command of Solr can be used to check the usage of the Solr prompt and its options.
[Hadoop@localhost bin]$ ./Solr -help  

Usage: Solr COMMAND OPTIONS        
   where COMMAND is one of: start, stop, restart, status, healthcheck, 
create, create_core, create_collection, delete, version, zk  
Standalone server example (start Solr running in the background on port 8984):  
   ./Solr start -p 8984  
SolrCloud example (start Solr running in SolrCloud mode using localhost:2181 
to connect to Zookeeper, with 1g max heap size and remote Java debug options enabled):  
   ./Solr start -c -m 1g -z localhost:2181 -a "-Xdebug -
   Xrunjdwp:transport = dt_socket,server = y,suspend = n,address = 1044"  
Pass -help after any COMMAND to see command-specific usage information,   
such as: ./Solr start -help or ./Solr stop -help 

This status command of Solr can be used to search and find out the running Solr instances on your computer. It can provide you information about a Solr instance such as its version, memory usage, etc.
You can check the status of a Solr instance, using the status command as follows −
[Hadoop@localhost bin]$ ./Solr status 

On executing, the above command displays the status of Solr as follows −
Found 1 Solr nodes:   

Solr process 6906 running on port 8983 {   
   "Solr_home":"/home/Hadoop/Solr/server/Solr",   
   "version":"6.2.0 764d0f19151dbff6f5fcd9fc4b2682cf934590c5 - 
   mike - 2016-08-20 05:41:37",   
   "startTime":"2016-09-20T06:00:02.877Z",   
   "uptime":"0 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes, 14 seconds",   
   "memory":"30.6 MB (%6.2) of 490.7 MB"
} 

After starting Apache Solr, you can visit the homepage of the Solr web interface by using the following URL.
Localhost:8983/Solr/

The interface of Solr Admin appears as follows −