title: Apache Solr 5.1 Securing Web Administration Interface
body: <p>Trying to secure Apache <strong>Solr 5.1</strong> on my Ubuntu 14.04 server. </p>
  
  <p>Mainly I am trying to figure out the best way to secure the web admin interface access to port 8983 (and any other ports I configure Solr on) with a user and password. But I may very well be missing some other important security measures, as my knowledge of Solr in general is still low, let alone for Solr 5.1.</p>
  
  <p>I can secure the ports using iptables easily, but I still want to be able to have secure password access to the web admin portion whenever I need (as was done with previous solr versions running with Tomcat or Jetty). Perhaps I simply need to configure the web.xml file or something?... </p>
  
  <p>There are many examples out there for earlier Solr versions - these will not work as this version of Solr 5.1 does not rely on Jetty or Tomcat. There are also a lot of suggestions and questions out there that don't seem to be very helpful with this version so please be mindful of this when posting references and make sure you at least have some knowledge of Solr 5 before posting.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your help! (I'm sure it will help others a well)</p>