On 09/08/2016 18:11, Rose, John B wrote:
We are looking at Solr for a Drupal web site. We have never installed Solr.
From my readings it is not clear exactly what we need to implement a search in
Drupal with Solr. Some sites have implied Lucene and/or Tomcat are needed.
Can someone point me to the site that explains minimally what is needed to
implement Solr within Drupal?
Thanks for your time
Hi John,
We have a couple of ongoing projects involving Drupal & Solr. Although
the latest Drupal Solr modules are OK, we tend to find that the
Drupal-ish way of thinking doesn't always translate to the best Solr
search experience: you can for example end up with very complex queries
being sent to Solr, everything being re-indexed every time a single
Drupal node is updated (we're actually working on a solution for this
for very large collections) or some very odd defaults being set in the
Solr configuration files. This is a generic issue when Solr or another
search engine is embedded in another product - the people doing the
embedding may not know enough about search to do it right.
In any case, you'll probably be fine, but do be aware.
Cheers
Charlie
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