diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b09b6cf6f..d66a04a22 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -96,3 +96,4 @@ whoosh/
 solr-4.10.2/
 postgres-data/
 data/
+solr-*/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 1b9a45fc1..b149ad906 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ Instruções para Deploy
    `Deploy SAPL com Nginx + Gunicorn <https://github.com/interlegis/sapl/blob/master/docs/deploy.rst>`_
 
 
+Instalação do Solr
+======================
+   `Instalação e configuração do Solr <https://github.com/interlegis/sapl/blob/master/docs/solr.rst>`_
+
+
 
 Instruções para Tradução
 ========================
diff --git a/docs/solr.rst b/docs/solr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a81ee9d12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/solr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+================================
+Instruções para instalar o Solr
+================================
+
+Solr é a ferramenta utilizada pelo SAPL 3.1 para indexar documentos para que possa ser feita
+a Pesquisa Textual.
+
+
+Dentro do diretório principal siga os seguintes passos::
+
+   curl -LO https://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/4.10.2/solr-4.10.2.tgz
+   tar xvzf solr-4.10.2.tgz
+   cd solr-4.10.2
+   cd example
+   java -jar start.jar
+   ./manage.py build_solr_schema --filename solr-4.10.2/example/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml
+
+
+Após isso, deve-se parar o servidor do Solr e restartar com ``java -jar start.jar``
+
+
+**OBS: Toda vez que o código da pesquisa textual for modificado, os comandos de build_solr_schema e start.jar devem ser rodados, nessa mesma ordem.**
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diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 9c49a47f2..fb70f9368 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ pyyaml==3.11
 rtyaml==0.0.3
 textract==1.5.0
 unipath==1.1
+pysolr==3.6.0
 python-magic==0.4.12
 gunicorn==19.6.0
 django-reversion==2.0.8
diff --git a/sapl/settings.py b/sapl/settings.py
index ed49f5d4d..694c12a95 100644
--- a/sapl/settings.py
+++ b/sapl/settings.py
@@ -84,11 +84,22 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
 
 ) + SAPL_APPS
 
+# FTS = Full Text Search
+SEARCH_BACKEND = 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine'
+SEARCH_URL = ('PATH', PROJECT_DIR.child('whoosh'))
+
+SOLR_URL = config('SOLR_URL', cast=str, default='')
+if SOLR_URL:
+    SEARCH_BACKEND = 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine'
+    SEARCH_URL = ('URL', config('SOLR_URL', cast=str))
+    # ...or for multicore...
+    # 'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/mysite',
+
 
 HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
     'default': {
-        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine',
-        'PATH': PROJECT_DIR.child('whoosh'),
+        'ENGINE': SEARCH_BACKEND,
+        SEARCH_URL[0] : SEARCH_URL[1]
     },
 }