How to start Solr automatically?

As you're on a shared Linux box, you'll have to ask the system administrator to do the following, probably. Create a startup script in /etc/init.d/solr. Copy this code, my Solr startup script, into that file: #!/bin/sh # Prerequisites: # 1. Solr needs to be installed at /usr/local/solr/example # 2. daemon needs to be installed # 3. Script needs to be executed by root # This script will launch Solr