download and install Solr from http://lucene.apache.org/solr/.
you can access Solr admin from your browser: http://localhost:8983/solr/
use the port number used in installation.
Download JDBC driver for MySQL from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/.
Copy file from the downloaded archive 'mysql-connector-java-*.jar' to the folder 'contrib/dataimporthandler/lib' in the folder where Solr was installed. Create 'lib' folder if needed.
create a new folder for a new collection - 'myproducts'. The collection will be located in '/solr/myproducts' folder.
copy solrconfig.xml from an existing collection and edit the file by adding:
Make sure that 'dist' folder contains two files for data import handler:
- solr-dataimporthandler-4.10.2.jar
- solr-dataimporthandler-extras-4.10.2.jar