Server Setup

Server Details

The initial development box is on a Digital Ocean Droplet with

• 512MB
• 1 Core
• 20GB SSD Disk
• 1TB Transfer

Operating System

• CentOS 7

Installed Software

• NGINX
• SOLR Search

Server Set Up

Installing Nginx

See full documentation with additional details here

• Enable EPEL Repository sudo yum install epel-release
• Install NGINX sudo yum install nginx
• Start NGINX sudo systemctl start nginx

Enable Additional Swap

This is a low-powered machine for testing, adding swap will allow for better/faster results

• Create 2GB of Swap space
  • sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
• Set swapfile to root read only
  • sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
• Set up the swap space
  • sudo mkswap /swapfile
• Enable swap on boot up
  • sudo vi /etc/fstab
  • Add the following to bottom of the file /swapfile swap swap sw 0 0

Set up SSL Certificates & Configure Nginx

Installing SOLR

• install java
  • sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64
• create SOLR user
  • adduser solr
• get the latest version of Apache Solr by following the mirror and download the latest
  • cd /opt sudo wget http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/apache/lucene/solr/5.4.1/solr-5.4.1.tgz
• Extract and install
  • sudo tar -zxvf solr-5.4.1.tgz