diff --git a/example.deploy.properties b/example.deploy.properties
index b82e2868..e77e0408 100644
--- a/example.deploy.properties
+++ b/example.deploy.properties
@@ -42,11 +42,25 @@ tomcat.home = /usr/local/tomcat
 webapp.name = vivo
 
 # 
-# URL of Solr context used in local VIVO search. Should consist of
-# scheme + servername + port + contextpath + "solr"
-#
+# URL of Solr context used in local VIVO search. Should consist of:
+#     scheme + servername + port + vivocontextpath + "solr"
+# In the standard installation, the Solr context will be on the same server as VIVO,
+# and in the same Tomcat instance. The path will be the VIVO webapp.name (specified
+# above) + "solr"
+#   Example:
+#     vitro.local.solr.url = http://localhost:8080/vivosolr
 vitro.local.solr.url = http://localhost:8080/vivosolr
 
+#
+# Restricts access to the Solr search platform. One or more regular expressions,
+# separated by commas. When a request is made to Solr, the IP address of the 
+# requestor must match one of the patterns, or the request will be rejected.
+#   Examples:
+#      vitro.local.solr.ipaddress.mask = 127\.0\.0\.1
+#      vitro.local.solr.ipaddress.mask = 127\.0\.0\.1,0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
+#      vitro.local.solr.ipaddress.mask = 169.254.*
+vitro.local.solr.ipaddress.mask = 127\.0\.0\.1,0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 
+
 #
 # The location where the VIVO application will store the data that it creates.
 # This includes uploaded files (usually images) and the search index.