I have written an article on this. The various steps to restrict / authenticate Solr admin interface.
http://www.findbestopensource.com/article-detail/restrict-solr-admin-access Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:06 AM, geeky2 <gee...@hotmail.com> wrote: > update - > > ok - i was reading about replication here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication > > and noticed comments in the solrconfig.xml file related to HTTP Basic > Authentication and the usage of the following tags: > > <str name="httpBasicAuthUser">username</str> > <str name="httpBasicAuthPassword">password</str> > > *Can i place these tags in the request handler to achieve an authentication > scheme for the /admin page?* > > // snipped from the solrconfig.xml file > > <requestHandler name="/admin/" > class="org.apache.solr.handler.admin.AdminHandlers"/> > > thanks for any help > mark > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/authentication-for-solr-admin-page-tp3865665p3865747.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >