install supervisor and solr, code almost copied by http://martinbrochhaus.com/solr.html

install_solr.sh

SOLR_VERSION=4.5.1
WEBFACTION_USER=username
MY_SUPERVISOR_CONF_ID=7399041

# retrieve a standard supervisor.conf 
mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
wget -O supervisor.conf.json https://api.github.com/gists/$MY_SUPERVISOR_CONF_ID && cat supervisor.conf.json|python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print obj["files"]["supervisor.conf"]["content"]' > ../supervisord.conf
rm supervisor.conf.json
cd ~

sed -i 's/username/'"$WEBFACTION_USER"'/g' supervisord.conf

echo "[program:solr]
user=$WEBFACTION_USER
directory=/home/$WEBFACTION_USER/src/solr-$SOLR_VERSION/example
command=java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -jar start.jar
" >> supervisord.conf

# installs solr (using netherland mirror since the server is in Amsterdam)
mkdir ~/src && cd ~/src
wget ftp://mirror.nl.webzilla.com/apache/lucene/solr/$SOLR_VERSION/solr-$SOLR_VERSION.tgz
tar -xzf solr-$SOLR_VERSION.tgz
cd apache-solr-$SOLR_VERSION/example

echo ".level = INFO
handlers = java.util.logging.FileHandler
java.util.logging.FileHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.XMLFormatter
java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern = /home/$WEBFACTION_USER/my/logs/solr%u.log
" > logging.properties
cd ~

# installs supervisor
pip install -U supervisor

mkdir -p ~/my/logs/cron
mkdir ~/etc && cd ~/etc

echo "now add a cronjob like:

*/5 * * * * ~/bin/supervisord > $HOME/my/logs/cron/supervisord.log 2>&1

into your crontab"

Hi!
I was trying to run Solr with supervisord but when the Solr crashes the process don’t restart. Did it happen the same with you?