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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

You're reading from   Mastering Apache Solr 7.x An expert guide to advancing, optimizing, and scaling your enterprise search

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837385
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dharmesh Vasoya Dharmesh Vasoya
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Chintan Mehta Chintan Mehta
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Sandeep Nair Sandeep Nair
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Preface 1. Introduction to Solr 7 2. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing Schemas 4. Mastering Text Analysis Methodologies 5. Data Indexing and Operations 6. Advanced Queries – Part I 7. Advanced Queries – Part II 8. Managing and Fine-Tuning Solr 9. Client APIs – An Overview

Enabling SSL – Solr security


In this example, we will see a basic SSL setup using a self-signed certificate. Enabling SSL ensures that communication between the client and Solr server is encrypted.

Prerequisites

Before generating a self-signed certificate, ensure that you have OpenSSL installed on your machine. To check whether OpenSSL is already installed, type the following command in the Command Prompt:

openssl version

It should print out the current version of OpenSSL running on your system. If it does not do so, kindly download the latest version of OpenSSL for your operating system and then install it.

We will also make use of JDK's keytool for generating self-signed certificates.

Generating a key and self-signed certificate

JDK provides the keytool command to create self-signed certificates. What we will first do is create a keystore using the following command:

keytool -genkeypair -alias mysolr -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -keypass solrpass -storepass solrpass -validity 3650 -keystore mysolrkeystore...
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