silverstripe-fulltextsearch/docs/Solr.md

Solr connector for SilverStripe fulltextsearch

This module provides a fulltextsearch module connector to Solr.

It works with Solr in multi-core mode. It needs to be able to update Solr configuration files, and has modes for doing this by direct file access (when Solr shares a server with SilverStripe) and by WebDAV (when it's on a different server).

Since Solr is Java based, this module requires a Java runtime to be present on the server Solr is running on (not nessecarily the same server the SilverStripe server is on).

Getting started quickly (dev mode)

Configure Solr in file mode

mysite/_config.php:

<?php

Solr::configure_server(isset($solr_config) ? $solr_config : array(
	'host' => 'localhost',
	'indexstore' => array(
		'mode' => 'file',
		'path' => BASE_PATH . '/fulltextsearch/thirdparty/solr/server/solr'
	)
));

Create an index

mysite/code/MyIndex.php:

<?php

class MyIndex extends SolrIndex {
	function init() {
		$this->addClass('Page');
		$this->addAllFulltextFields();
	}
}

Open a terminal, change to thirdparty/solr/server and start Solr by running java -jar start.jar

In another terminal run the configure task sake dev/tasks/Solr_configure

Tne run the configure task sake dev/tasks/Solr_reindex

You can now visit http://localhost:8983/solr/MyIndex/admin/ to search the contents of the now created Solr index

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These instructions will get you running quickly, but the Solr indexes will be stored in your project. You can also copy the thirdparty/solr directory somewhere else. The instructions are above still apply then - just set the path value in mysite/_config.php to point to this other location, and of course run java -jar start.jar from the new directory not the thirdparty one.