This week we've got more tutorials in our series Improving Drupal's Search with Apache Solr and Search API. We'll look at installing Solr on your localhost for development, and also cover one of the many ways you might install Solr on a production server. In order to demonstrate installing Solr on a production server we'll fire up a virtual machine with Vagrant and install Java, Tomcat, and Solr. Then look at how we can confirm that Solr is running and ready to be used.
Then, we'll look at using the Solr configuration provided with the Search API Solr module to configure Solr in a way that allows it to better understand Drupal's field types and the data they contain. Finally, we'll wrap things up this week with a tutorial that looks at creating the configuration in Search API required to start indexing content, and the various settings associated with indexing. One of the big benefits of using Search API is that we're not tied to Solr as a backend. The configuration that we create for our index in Search API works with Search API Solr to create a bridge between Drupal and Solr.
This week's tutorials:
- Install Apache Solr on Localhost (FREE)
- Install Apache Solr on Server
- Install Search API Solr
- Create a Search API Index
Next week we'll continue our exploration of the Search API module and look at creating a page to query Solr and display the search results, adding additional fields to our index, and even using Views to get information out of the Solr index.
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