diff --git a/pkgs/servers/search/solr/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/search/solr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..443e7af71ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/search/solr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "solr-${version}";
+  version = "4.7.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://apache/lucene/solr/${version}/solr-${version}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "0qm3pnhpfqjxdl0xiwffrcchp79q3ja5w5d278bkkxglc2y1y4xc";
+  };
+
+  phases = [ "unpackPhase" "installPhase" ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/lib
+    cp dist/${name}.war $out/lib/solr.war
+    cp -r example/lib/ext $out/lib/ext
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://lucene.apache.org/solr/";
+    description = ''
+      Open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project
+    '';
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.asl20;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.rickynils ];
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3daae75dbaa6..3c5752e18a05 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1906,6 +1906,8 @@ let
     inherit (pkgsi686Linux.xlibs) libX11;
   };
 
+  solr = callPackage ../servers/search/solr { };
+
   sparsehash = callPackage ../development/libraries/sparsehash { };
 
   stardict = callPackage ../applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix {