Installing Solr 3.6 on Mac with Homebrew

Aurélien Malisart

October 01, 2013

At the time of writing, if you install Solr with Homebrew, you’ll get a Solr 4 installation. For some reasons, you might be interested to install Solr 3.2 instead. If your application depends on it for example.

Let’s see how to do that with Homebrew.

Installing

First, you need to install the versions plugin :

brew tap homebrew/versions

And now you will be able to install Solr 3.6 :

brew install solr36

You probably need to customize the schema.xml too :

cd /usr/local/Cellar/solr36/3.6.2/libexec/example/solr/conf/
cp /path/to/schema.xml .

If you want to customize where the index will be stored :

mkdir /path/to/solr-data
nano /usr/local/Cellar/solr36/3.6.2/libexec/example/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml

and set ${solr.data.dir:} to /path/to/solr-data.

Running

Run the JAR :

cd /usr/local/Cellar/solr36/3.6.2/libexec/example
java -jar start.jar

Note that everything has been done in the example/ subdirectory of Solr. If you want to have multiple instances, you can copy/paste that directory as many times as you need, and work from the new resulting location(s).

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