Installing & Configuring Luke for Solr

Luke is a handy development and diagnostic tool, which accesses already existing indexes, it help us to analyse search result, Document and optimize the indexes

1. First we need to Download Java and install and for detail instruction refer to this http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/internet-explorer/install-java#ie=ie-1
2. Download Luke file https://code.google.com/archive/p/luke/downloads
3. Changed  the Zip file to Jar, Double click and run the JAR File.
4. If you get the below error
   

   Invalid directory at the location, check console for more information. Last exception:
   org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFormatTooNewException: Format version is not supported (resource: ChecksumIndexInput(MMapIndexInput(path=”/home/lavin/sep20.index/segments_2″))): 1 (needs to be between 0 and 0)

5. Download the latest Luke from the below link..https://github.com/DmitryKey/luke/releases/tag/4.6.0
6. Add the below line in Solrconfig.xml file which under “solr\sitecore_****_index\conf” folder.<requestHandler class=”solr.admin.LukeRequestHandler” name=”/admin/luke”/>
7. Run the Jar file and File-> Open Lucene Index.  Give the full folder path like below.                                                                                                         C:\Bitnami\solr-5.5.0-1\apache-solr\solr\sitecore_web_index\data\index
   
8. Search for the Sample Template, as described in the Image below.

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