Configure Solr With Liferay 6

Configuring solr on standalone tomcat-

1. download solr and unzip to any directory say d:
2. set environment variable SOLR_HOME as D:\apache-solr-1.4.1\example\solr
3. Copy D:\apache-solr-1.4.1\dist\apache-solr-1.4.1.war and paste it in \Tomcat 6.0\webapps folder. make sure rename the war file to solr.war.
4. start the tomcat to unzip the war.
5. stop tomcat
6. edit the file \Tomcat 6.0\webapps\solr\WEB-INF\web.xml. Uncomment the following entry and provide path of your SOLR_HOME

7. Start tomcat and browse http://localhost:8080/solr/admin to verify your solr installation.

Configuring Solr plugin in Liferay-

1. download the required solr-web.war compatible with your liferay version
2. put this war in LIFERAY_HOME\deploy folder
3. After deployment shut down the Liferay server as well as solr instance.
4. Edit the file D:\liferay-portal-6.1.20-ee-ga2\tomcat-7.0.27\webapps\solr-web\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\solr-spring.xml

provide your solr instance settings as above.
5. Copy D:\liferay-portal-6.1.20-ee-ga2\tomcat-7.0.27\webapps\solr-web\WEB-INF\conf\schema.xml file and paste it into D:\apache-solr-1.4.1\example\solr\conf folder.

Now start your tomcat and then Liferay server.