Re: Solr CMS Integration

2009-08-07 Thread Tim Archambault
I would second that and add that you may want to consider acquia.com as they provide a solid infrustracture to support the solr instance. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Andre Hagenbruch wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > wojtekpia schrieb: > > Hi Wojtek, > > > I've bee

Re: solr instances for different content?

2007-11-05 Thread Tim Archambault
erhaps you can logically group things to only > have a couple of indexes? For instance, maybe home, auto, classifieds > are similar in content and structure and news and community-generated > content are similar? > > -Grant > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Tim Archambault wrote: >

solr instances for different content?

2007-11-05 Thread Tim Archambault
Typical newspaper site with: news, jobs, homes, autos, classifieds, community-generated content, guestimate of .5 million documents Do I really need to create a different solr index for each vertical? How ineffecient is it to add a few additional fields for each content type? Thinking of having a

Re: SOLR developer

2007-08-30 Thread Tim Archambault
Thanks. I didn't mean to send that to the list-serv :} On 8/31/07, Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/07, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...I'm thinking of sending a similar > > list-serv item out, but I noticed thi

Re: SOLR developer

2007-08-30 Thread Tim Archambault
Mark, Did you get any responses to your inquiry? I'm thinking of sending a similar list-serv item out, but I noticed this is a solr-user list, not necessarily a developers list so I thought I'd ask. I'm looking for someone to integrate with Drupal. Tim Archambault

Re: PriceJunkie.com using solr!

2007-05-17 Thread Tim Archambault
I did a search and noticed pages were executed through aspx. Are you using .net to parse the xml results from SOLR? Nice site, just trying to figure out where SOLR fits into this. On 5/16/07, Mike Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the creation of sol

Re: Editing wiki-page "Powerd by Solr"

2007-03-23 Thread Tim Archambault
fabio, Off topic, but thanks for the link to your newspaper classifieds. I manage newspaper website here in Maine, USA and am VERY INTERESTED in using solr to power our jobs, etc. Looking to integrate SOLR with DRUPAL right now. I'd like to collaborate with you in the future if possible. Than

Re: SOLR hosting

2007-03-23 Thread Tim Archambault
Is your question inherently asking if someone out there provides a service that manages the indexes, etc for you and pre-installs and configures the software? If NOT, I can tell you that I bought a Linux VPS at Hostmysite.com cheaply and dedicated 1 virtual domain to my SOLR instance and it worke

Re: can't add any records to index. Getting error below

2007-02-09 Thread Tim Archambault
Worked like a charm. Changed solrconfig.xml On 2/9/07, Brian Whitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Tim Archambault wrote: > I can delete documents, commit, but can't "add". Any help is greatly > appreciated. Tried to find a locked fil

can't add any records to index. Getting error below

2007-02-09 Thread Tim Archambault
I can delete documents, commit, but can't "add". Any help is greatly appreciated. Tried to find a locked file in the "data" folder, but found none. Seems to have something to do with indexWriter. Tried to reboot server and still got the error. SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Lock obtain timed out: S

Solr "autostart"

2007-01-28 Thread Tim Archambault
Using Solr with Jetty on linux VPS server. When I ssh and run "start.jar" I can go to a web browser and with success to the /solr/admin page. I acn query with the whole "nine" no problems. However when I close out my terminal session (iBook) I cannot access the solr web interface. My intuition i

Re: shared server

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Archambault
Damn sorry Yonik I wasn't clear. I have no visible "conf" or "data" folders. On 10/26/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting, these files that you speak of are not even in my ftp site. They must not be part of the war file. This might actua

Re: shared server

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Archambault
Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/26/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yonik, > > *"put the solr home (containing conf, data, etc) in the directory that > tomcat starts in"* > > Would this be related to the "instance" of Tomcat

Re: shared server

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Archambault
g the Solr war and editing the web.xml, pointing solr.home to the correct place. -Yonik On 10/26/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed up for hosting at performancehosting.net which has shared Tomcat > services. I'm using it to play with Solr. > > I'v

Re: shared server

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Archambault
, data, etc) in the directory that tomcat starts in. Baring that, you may have to make a custom war by exploding the Solr war and editing the web.xml, pointing solr.home to the correct place. -Yonik On 10/26/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed up for hosting at performancehos

shared server

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Archambault
Signed up for hosting at performancehosting.net which has shared Tomcat services. I'm using it to play with Solr. I've installed the Solr war file from the downloadable Solr Nightly Update zip through the Tomcat interface. Obviously nothing works. I know nothing about Java so can anyone give me

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Archambault
Amen Hoss. I appreciated you explaining in terms of what I can understand, "jobs." Makes it easier for me to learn. What you are saying is right-on with what I'm trying to understand. Right now I have simple Lucene Indexes that basically re-created once daily and that simply isn't doing the job

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Archambault
ercial software. It is a rather different style of programming than SQL or Lucene. You write XQuery to define the result XML with the contents fetched from the database. wunder (not affiliated with MarkLogic) On 9/22/06 12:42 PM, "Tim Archambault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Archambault
d be able to provide quality search experience, but they just flat out don't. It's a separate utility. Thanks Walter. On 9/22/06, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/06 12:25 PM, "Tim Archambault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A recruitment (jobs) c

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Archambault
On 9/22/06, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 22, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Tim Archambault wrote: > I believe there's a way to access MSSQL, MySQL etc. directly with > Lucene, > but not sure how to do this with SOLR. Nope. Lucene is a pure search engine, with no h

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Archambault
r all your feedback. While I started out way over my head. Solr is actually fun to play around with, even for non-programmers or marginal programmers like myself. On 9/22/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a coup

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Archambault
I have a couple of questions from some online newspaper folks who are interested in Solr and are trying to understand how and why it came to be. I think inherent in these questions is the underlying theme I hear all the time and that is "Solr is not a content management system. It's a search engin

Re: Fixed first hits -> custom RequestHandler?

2006-09-21 Thread Tim Archambault
Otis, I'm curious as to what you find out here. I'm looking at setting up a second Solr instance to handle keyword advertising and the first instance to handle the site search for our newspaper website. Never thought of your question. Thanks, Tim On 9/21/06, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Default XML Output Schema

2006-09-21 Thread Tim Archambault
This structure was inhibiting to me at first too using Coldfusion. However, I was able to create a function that dynamically creates a query recordset for both facets and search results and will accomodate new/additional fields at any time. If I can do it, any reasonable programmer can handle it.

Re: How to best index user-generated content

2006-09-20 Thread Tim Archambault
Whatever programming language you are using probably has a function that makes "xml-safe" text. For example, I'm using Coldfusion to integrate with Solr and all data is set like follows: #xmlformat(usergeneratedcontent)# My guess is PHP, ASP, etc. all have a function like this On 9/20/06, Nick

Re: duplicating all records added to index

2006-09-14 Thread Tim Archambault
e if I had multiple declarations for "ID" in my schema and did not. I'm going to bomb it and start over tonight. Learning as I go I guess. On 9/14/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/14/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My index seems

Re: duplicating all records added to index

2006-09-14 Thread Tim Archambault
absolutely. On 9/14/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > My index seems to be duplicating all records on insert even though I have : > my add statements set to not allow duplicates. : > : > I've provided a samle xml file of add docs. Anyone experienced this? Is your "id" field

Re: duplicating all records added to index

2006-09-13 Thread Tim Archambault
In the example I sent the "id" field is not unique, but I've long since corrected that and still getting duplication. FYI On 9/14/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My index seems to be duplicating all records on insert even though I have my add statem

duplicating all records added to index

2006-09-13 Thread Tim Archambault
My index seems to be duplicating all records on insert even though I have my add statements set to not allow duplicates. I've provided a samle xml file of add docs. Anyone experienced this? obituaries_ http://www.bangordailynews.com/a/class/obituaries/obituary.cfm?id=16140 20001204

Re: Solr in production env.

2006-09-11 Thread Tim Archambault
CNET has been using SOLR in production for quite some time. There are others on this list-serv that can elaborate way beyond me. On 9/11/06, Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I almost convinced my boss to use Solr in production for a new project and hopefully for lots of follow

Re: Re: Re: IIS web server and Solr integration

2006-09-10 Thread Tim Archambault
a few hoops. Spend time on making that combination work, and you'll be 90% there.... Hope this helps. -- j On 9/10/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good news. The rookie did just that. Thanks Chris. Just having a > difficult time how to send my query p

Re: Re: IIS web server and Solr integration

2006-09-10 Thread Tim Archambault
Good news. The rookie did just that. Thanks Chris. Just having a difficult time how to send my query parameters to the engine from Coldfusion [intelligently]. I'm going to download the PHP app and see if I can figure it out. Having lots of fun with this for sure. Tim On 9/10/06, Chris Hostetter

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-10 Thread Tim Archambault
k Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 9, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Tim Archambault wrote: > I need to understand this then. Thanks. I want to use Solr for our > newspaper > website and this would be a great way to break out content. Kind of > greys > the lines between what is

search terms submitted

2006-09-09 Thread Tim Archambault
Just wondering what others do with the search terms people type into your solr search boxes? Does CNet use this information for "Popular Searches?" Just curious. FYI. SOLR is up and running on my Windows 2003 IIS machine. Thanks for everyone's feedback.

Re: Re: SolrCore as Singleton?

2006-09-09 Thread Tim Archambault
In regard to the comment about lack of an interface, I view this as a benefit of the tool. Whether I'm developing with Python, PHP, Coldfusion, .NET, Java, etc. I can create my own customizable interface. As a coldfusion programmer with moderate programming capabilities, this tool is perfect for

IIS web server and Solr integration

2006-09-09 Thread Tim Archambault
Looking to use Solr, but in Dedicated Windows environment. Can anyone provide me some input as to how this can be done? If it can, do you recommend Jetty, Tomcat, other? Should it run on a separate port than IIS or integrated using ISAPI plug-in? Any help is greatly appreciated. Our site isn't

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-09 Thread Tim Archambault
Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sep 9, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Tim Archambault wrote: > What is "faceted browsing"? Maybe an example of a site interface > that is > using it would be good. Dumb question, I know. Faceted browsing is like this: http://shopper.cnet.com/

Re: Simple Faceted Searching out of the box

2006-09-09 Thread Tim Archambault
Hoss, What is "faceted browsing"? Maybe an example of a site interface that is using it would be good. Dumb question, I know. On 9/8/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey everybody, I just wanted to officially announce that as of the solr-2006-09-08.zip nightly build, Solr suppo

Re: SOLR stylesheet

2006-07-17 Thread Tim Archambault
Andre, I believe I had posted the same message several months ago and was told the stylesheet functionality was for internal use in a previous release and is not "functional" now. On 7/17/06, Andre Basse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi SOLR users, I know this issue has been discussed before bu

Re: ApacheCon EU slides

2006-07-11 Thread Tim Archambault
Yonik, Thanks for the slides. Quick question. I'm looking at a new hosting provider for our newspaper website. When reviewing your "High Availability" slide, I see a lot of redundancy which is great, but it is not within my budget constraints (It's a limitation that causes me to not sleep well a

Re: Java or PHP code to trigger solr?

2006-06-28 Thread Tim Archambault
I'm curious as well as I am creating a CFMX interface for Solr. If you wouldn't mind sharing info, please do. On 6/28/06, UpAndGone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I was just planning to write a web service like front-end to Lucene when I heard of this project. Are there any examples on in

Re: List of indexed terms for a field

2006-06-07 Thread Tim Archambault
Great question. Please share your answers. I'd like to use this for a "GOOGLE SUGGEST" Ajax scenario. On 6/7/06, Paul Terray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am trying Solr for some projects and I am very impressed by its simplicity and clarity of use. I am trying to make an index: Is

Re: stylesheet issue

2006-06-02 Thread Tim Archambault
Thanks again for all your help. You've been great. Someday I may want to convert our xml archives into the search, but not yet. Sounds like Solr will be more scalable in the future and that may be feasible. Have a great weekend. On 6/2/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On

Re: stylesheet issue

2006-06-02 Thread Tim Archambault
of about 300,000 documents initially and should grow by about 150 per day.. On 6/2/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/2/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That'll be fine. As you can probably tell, I'm not a programmer. I am just a > dan

Re: stylesheet issue

2006-06-02 Thread Tim Archambault
thing to test, yet another in a production environment. Which java-based web server component do you recommend for a windows platform? Tomcat? Another? I know nothing about these tools. I am using Jetty for testing. Thank you for all your help. Tim On 6/2/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTE

stylesheet issue

2006-06-01 Thread Tim Archambault
I've got solr installed and running, with only one failure left to date. Whenver I try to select a stylesheet for my search, I get an error message such as this: Error loading stylesheet: A network error occured loading an XSLT stylesheet:http://localhost:8983/admin/tabular.xsl Something tells m

Re: solr newbie

2006-06-01 Thread Tim Archambault
up to now, but this looks much better. On 6/1/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the "web" options. Thank you very much. While that is installing > incrementally, two last questions. > > Are

Re: solr newbie

2006-06-01 Thread Tim Archambault
create XML files for each one? Thanks again. Tim On 6/1/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll need to install cygwin again I think. Thanks. Don't uninstall cygwin... just re-run the cygwin setup.exe

Re: solr newbie

2006-06-01 Thread Tim Archambault
I'll need to install cygwin again I think. Thanks. On 6/1/06, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/1/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't understand what "web category" means. SH. The cygwin installer has different categories of

Re: solr newbie

2006-06-01 Thread Tim Archambault
tutorial will assume that "sh" is in your PATH, and that you have "curl" installed from the "Web" category. -Yonik On 6/1/06, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to run the test tutorial to index an xml file and keep getting an > error message: curl: command not found? > > Any help is greatly appreciated.

solr newbie

2006-06-01 Thread Tim Archambault
Trying to run the test tutorial to index an xml file and keep getting an error message: curl: command not found? Any help is greatly appreciated.