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+Solr example
+------------
+
+This directory contains an instance of the Jetty Servlet container setup to
+run Solr using an example configuration.
+
+To run this example:
+
+ java -jar start.jar
+
+in this example directory, and when Solr is started connect to
+
+ http://localhost:8983/solr/
+
+To add documents to the index, use the post.jar (or post.sh script) in
+the example/exampledocs subdirectory (while Solr is running), for example:
+
+ cd exampledocs
+ java -jar post.jar *.xml
+Or: sh post.sh *.xml
+
+For more information about this example please read...
+
+ * example/solr/README.txt
+ For more information about the "Solr Home" and Solr specific configuration
+ * http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
+ For a Tutorial using this example configuration
+ * http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrResources
+ For a list of other tutorials and introductory articles.
+
+Notes About These Examples
+--------------------------
+
+* SolrHome *
+
+By default, start.jar starts Solr in Jetty using the default Solr Home
+directory of "./solr/" (relative to the working directory of hte servlet
+container). To run other example configurations, you can specify the
+solr.solr.home system property when starting jetty...
+
+ java -Dsolr.solr.home=multicore -jar start.jar
+ java -Dsolr.solr.home=example-DIH/solr -jar start.jar
+
+* References to Jar Files Outside This Directory *
+
+Various example SolrHome dirs contained in this directory may use "<lib>"
+statements in the solrconfig.xml file to reference plugin jars outside of
+this directory for loading "contrib" plugins via relative paths.
+
+If you make a copy of this example server and wish to use the
+ExtractingRequestHandler (SolrCell), DataImportHandler (DIH), UIMA, the
+clustering component, or any other modules in "contrib", you will need to
+copy the required jars or update the paths to those jars in your
+solrconfig.xml.
+
+* Logging *
+
+By default, Jetty & Solr will log to the console a logs/solr.log. This can be convenient when
+first getting started, but eventually you will want to log just to a file. To
+configure logging, edit the log4j.properties file in "resources".
+
+It is also possible to setup log4j or other popular logging frameworks.
+