"Nothing to start" when trying to start Apache Solr

Question

I have Ubuntu 14.10 and now I want to install and try Apache Solr. First of all, I visited official Apache Solr page and downloaded a zip archive. Then I unzipped it in one folder called solr, so that this manually created folder now contains these files:

contexts/
libs/
modules/
...
start.jar

Among those files I see start.jar and, so, following one of the tutorials I tried this command (inside this very folder):

$ java -jar start.jar

But, as a result, I have this error message: WARNING. Nothing to start, exiting.... I wonder what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

According to http://lucene.apache.org/solr/quickstart.html the command to start Solr 5.2.1 is

bin/solr start -e cloud -noprompt

The reference to start.jar is from an older tutorial to a start.jar in the examples folder.

Answer 2

Add --module=http parameter.

Like this: $ java -jar start.jar --module=http

bin/solr does exactly that, except it shows complete disrespect for Linux Standard Base (LSB). I would not recommend to use it.