diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 52baa1622..a9cbb7ebe 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -95,3 +95,4 @@ media
 whoosh/
 postgres-data/
 data/
+solr-4.10.2
\ 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..4e5b998ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/solr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+================================
+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``
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 6d7592cda..1ba9ed57e 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 11b94b3de..8443c9cd3 100644
--- a/sapl/settings.py
+++ b/sapl/settings.py
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
 
 HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
     'default': {
-        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine',
-        'PATH': PROJECT_DIR.child('whoosh'),
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine',
+        'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr'
+        # ...or for multicore...
+        # 'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/mysite',
     },
 }