Drupal + apache solr

Apache Solr Advanced Drupal Search By, Anil Sagar, Sr. Drupal Developer, SourceN India Pvt Ltd. June 19th

The search box
Desired results
Speed
Relevancy

You still have to guess about how to find what you’re looking for.

My Search is slow !!!!!!!!!!!!
More than 10 million nodes ?
Site goes down ?
PHP + MySQL
Joins

Meet Apache Solr Java = faster than PHP + MySQL

Solr is a separate server
Powerful, Accurate and Efficient Search Algorithms
100%-pure Java
Scalable, High-Performance Indexing
Available as Open Source software under the Apache License

ApacheSolr is a Drupal module that integrates Drupal with Solr. http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

Meet faceted search
Start broad and general
Narrow on facets
Sort
Back up (remove facetes)
Narrow again
Victory!

ApacheSolr has native faceted search.

Content types
Authors
Taxonomy terms
Languages
CCK field values
Filter your results

ApacheSolr sortable results.

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
PDF
TXT
PPT
Many more…
ApacheSolr can index attached files.

ApacheSolr can recommend content.

Solr evaluates the title, body,taxonomy terms, author name, etc for similarity.
Content recommendation is a great tool for making your site sticky and leading site visitors to the next item of interest.
ApacheSolr can recommend content.

ApacheSolr is highly configurable.

ApacheSolr can search across multiple websites.

Step 1: Download Apache Solr module from here http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr , and place it in your drupal contributed modules folder.
Step 2: Before enabling the module, we need to do some additional configurations. Download the apachesolr php client library from here http://code.google.com/p/solr-php-client/downloads/list . After extracting the files, place solrphpclient folder into apachesolr module folder.
Step 3: Now enable Apache Solr Framework and Apache Solr Search modules from admin/build/modules section.

Step4: Now download Apache Solr from here. http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/lucene/solr/1.4.0/apache-solr-1.4.0.zip and extract the contents.
ApacheSolr Installation

Step 5: Unpack the tar ball or zip file downloaded in step 3 outside your drupal installation and outside web root.
Step 6: Go to /apachesolr1.4.0/example/solr/conf and copy schema and solrconfig files to the same directory and rename them as schema.bak and solrconfig.bak
Step 7: Copy schema and solrconfig files from your drupal installation apachesolr module to above location and replace with existing files.
Step 8: Now open your command prompt and browse to apachesolr1.4.0/example directory.
ApacheSolr Installation continued….

Step 9: Type below command to start apachesolr service
>> java -jar start.jar
Step 10: Test your solr server admin interface by visiting http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/ . If you can able to see admin page then your solr is running and ready to use with drupal.
Step 11: Its time to configure drupal search with apache solr. Please go to admin/settings/apachesolr/index and run cron to index the content using apache solr search engine.

Step 12: Now go to admin/settings/apachesolr click on advanced configuration and make apache solr as default search. Now go to admin/settings/apachesolr/enabled-filters and enable the sorting filters.

Step 13: Now goto blocks and enable the necessary apache solr related blocks.
Step 14: To enable facets please go to admin/settings/apachesolr/enabled-filters and enable filters. Now go to blocks and enable the facets filtering blocks where ever you want !!
That's it...... Improved search performance is in front of your eyes. You can sort the content using the sort block. Amazing user experience and amazing search speed.

Thank you

http://thuannvn.blogspot.com	22
http://saylinux.net	12
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com	1

Drupal + apache solr

by anilsagar on Jun 21, 2010

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

3 Embeds 35

Statistics

Drupal + apache solr — Presentation Transcript