Running Solr on Windows with SimplePostTool

This tutorial covers Java 1.8.0_101 and Apache Solr 5.5.2 on Windows.
Your PATH variable will not be changed. I used full path to cmd/jar file.
I also didn't use Claspath.

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2\bin\solr.cmd version
5.5.2

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2\bin\solr.cmd start
Waiting up to 30 to see Solr running on port 8983
Started Solr server on port 8983. Happy searching!

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2\bin\solr.cmd create -c texas

Copying configuration to new core instance directory:
c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2\server\solr\texas

Creating new core 'texas' using command:
http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/cores?action=CREATE&name=texas&instanceDir=texas

{
  "responseHeader":{
    "status":0,
    "QTime":10199},
  "core":"texas"}

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>java -jar example/exampledocs/post.jar -h

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>java -Dtype=text/csv -Dc=texas -jar example/exampledocs/post.jar *.csv

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>java -Dauto -Dc=texas -jar example/exampledocs/post.jar fajlovi

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>java -Ddata=web -Dfiletypes=html -Dc=texas -jar example/exampledocs/post.jar http://example.com

More from official docs https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/The+Standard+Query+Parser
proximity search

• "lorem amet"~20

search JSON document

• id:978-1423103349

• also see image

• cat:book OR text:hardcover

Solr filters and query

Delete all indexed documents

$ curl localhost:8983/solr/texas/update -H "Content-type: text/xml" --data-binary '*:*'
$ curl localhost:8983/solr/texas/update -H "Content-type: text/xml" --data-binary ''

Stop Solr server

c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2>c:\Users\UserName\Documents\solr-5.5.2\bin\solr.cmd stop -all
Stopping Solr process 5228 running on port 8983

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