Solr Journey
Oh Solr. So much power, so much fumbling. https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/index.html Environment I was able to run Solr in Windows, and utilise the multiline Curl commands in WSL by add SOLR_JETTY_HOST=0.0.0.0 as last line to: notepad C:\solr\solr-9.8.1\bin\solr.in.cmd Stop and Start Solr. This also makes it available on the LAN curl http://192.168.0.10:8983/solr/admin/info/system from the WSL returns a lot of debugging information to verify. Start switches bin/solr start -p 8983 (this is one you want for dev/testing) -c Core AND Collection depending on context bin/solr create -c mycore (core name) bin/solr create_collection -c customers (collection name) -p Port 8983 is the typical one in the docs -e Example (Don't use) Core vs Collect...