Re: SOLR 4.0 / Jetty Security Set Up

2012-09-07 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Erick, I think that should be described differently... You need to set-up protected access for some paths. /update is one of them. And you could make this protected at the jetty level or using Apache proxies and rewrites. Probably /select should be kept open but you need to evaluate if that can

Re: SOLR 4.0 / Jetty Security Set Up

2012-09-07 Thread Tomas Zerolo
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:50:58AM +0200, Paul Libbrecht wrote: Erick, I think that should be described differently... You need to set-up protected access for some paths. /update is one of them. And you could make this protected at the jetty level or using Apache proxies and rewrites. So

Re: SOLR 4.0 / Jetty Security Set Up

2012-09-07 Thread dan sutton
Hi, If like most people you have application server(s) in front of solr, the simplest and most secure option is to bind solr to a local address (192.168.* or 10.0.0.*). The app server talks to solr via the local (a.k.a blackhole) ip address that no-one from outside can ever access as it's not

Re: SOLR 4.0 / Jetty Security Set Up

2012-09-06 Thread Erick Erickson
Securing Solr pretty much universally requires that you only allow trusted clients to access the machines directly, usually secured with a firewall and allowed IP addresses, the admin handler is the least of your worries. Consider if you let me ping solr directly, I can do something really