Hi, You can simply configure a firewall on your Solr server to only allow access from your frontend server. Whether you use the built-in software firewall of Linux/Windows/Whatever or use some other FW utility is a choice you need to make. This is by design - you should never ever expose your backend services, whether it's a search server or a database server, to the public.
Read more about Solr security on the WIKI: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrSecurity -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 9. mai 2011, at 20.57, Brian Lamb wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to set up solr so that it will only execute dataimport > commands if they come from localhost? > > Right now, my application and my solr installation are on different servers > so any requests are formatted http://domain:8983 instead of > http://localhost:8983. I am concerned that when I launch my application, > there will be the potential for abuse. Is the best solution to have > everything reside on the same server? > > What are some other solutions? > > Thanks, > > Brian Lamb
