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Solr HTTP admin interface is per default unprotected and can be accessed by everyone.
To secure the interface with HTTP web authentication follow these steps.

Open:
[shell]C:\Tomcat\webapps\solr\WEB-INF\web.xml[/shell]

After:
[xml]<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5"
metadata-complete="true">[/xml]

Insert:
[xml]<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>
Solr Lockdown
</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>solr_admin</role-name>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>Solr</realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description>solr users</description>
</security-role>[/xml]

Open:
[shell]C:\Tomcat\conf\tomcat-users.xml[/shell]

Inside [xml]<tomcat-users> </tomcat-users>[/xml] insert:
[xml]<user name="myUsername" password="myPassword" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui,solr_admin"></user>[/xml]

After setting Solr DataImportHandler up and trying to fetch data from SQL Server via the HTTP API (http://localhost:8080/solr/dataimport?command=full-import) I got an error response back, telling all changes had been rolled back.

[code]
<response>
<lst name="responseHeader">
<int name="status">0</int>
<int name="QTime">7</int>
</lst>
<lst name="initArgs">
</lst><lst name="defaults">
<str name="config">data-config.xml</str>
</lst>

<str name="command">full-import</str>
<str name="status">idle</str>
<str name="importResponse"></str>
<lst name="statusMessages">
<str name="Time Elapsed">0:1:19.495</str>
<str name="Total Requests made to DataSource">1</str>
<str name="Total Rows Fetched">0</str>
<str name="Total Documents Processed">0</str>
<str name="Total Documents Skipped">0</str>
<str name="Full Dump Started">2013-08-14 11:20:59</str>
<str name="">Indexing failed. Rolled back all changes.</str>
<str name="Rolledback">2013-08-14 11:21:28</str>
</lst>
<str name="WARNING">
This response format is experimental. It is likely to change in the future.
</str>
</response>
[/code]

The Catalina log didn’t tell me anything useful, but checking “Logging” in http://localhost:8080/solr/ threw:
[code]
WARN SimplePropertiesWriter Unable to read: dataimport.properties
[/code]

It simply says that Solr is unable to read the file dataimport.properties.
The file is not a part of the standard Solr package and is not created automatically.
To fix this warning, simply created an empty file called “dataimport.properties” in your Solr conf directory, eg. /Solr/collection1/conf/ and make sure Apache has write access to it.