Hi, I'd certainly add firewall rules. In some cases also HTTP Auth. Nutch can authenticate to Solr so that's no problem.
Cheers On Tuesday 10 April 2012 17:10:42 Spadez wrote: > Hi, > > I’m in the process of working how to configure and secure my server running > Nginx, and Nutch and Solr under Tomcat. Is the best security practice for > securing Solr under Tomcat simply to only allow requests only from > 127.0.0.1. This way Solr isn’t exposed to the outside world and is only > compromised when the server is hacked, at which point I’m buggered anyway? > > I’d appreciate your input on this because there seems to be a diverse range > of opinions on this. > > Regards, > > James > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Securing-Solr-under-Tomcat-IP-best-way- > tp3899929p3899929.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. -- Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex