Replacing a SOLR certificate is routine business these days, but something went sideways this time, and I couldn't stop the service, which led to its own problems. In the end I created a self signed one and used that instead, and I'll show you what I did to get the service to respond. 

We've got a client with a really cool search implementation, and they're always excited to publish new content and see how our various CTAs dynamically pull data based on this or that. So, once the site started to really get going with content, we were getting requests about content not getting indexed. After a couple of initial checks, it turns out the sitecore_suggested_test_index was clogging the pipes! Why? How? Let's check it out.

One of the prerequisites for a Sitecore installation is Solr. I'm excessively lazy, so having a script to do the complete installation for me is something I'm going to keep around. Today we'll install Solr in 2 simple steps!