On 10/22/2013 8:09 AM, Raheel Hasan wrote:
This sounds like trouble.
I have used Solr in my script (php) such that I curl it for query (using
"solr/automata/select?q="). If I make it completely off-public, how will my
own site access it?
Is there any parameter to prevent access by "REMOTE_ADDR"?
The basic design intent with Solr is this:
1) A set of servers that handle your website or other applicationthat
uses Solr.
2) A set of servers that handle Solr.
3) A firewall that allows only relevant traffic from the end users (or
the internet) to reach the webservers on appropriate ports. Only
trusted administrators can reach the Solr servers. If the websites and
Solr are not on the same network, the firewalling should allow the
website servers to talk freely to Solr on Solr's port.
This means that you can't have purely javascript-driven search boxes,
unless the javascript sends the search request to code on the webserver
which cleans it ip and constructs a Solr query from it.
Side issue: There are PHP packages for talking to Solr in an
object-oriented way, rather than using crafting the URLs yourself and
using curl. Here's some examples:
http://pecl.php.net/package/solr
http://www.solarium-project.org/
I don't write PHP code myself, but it is usually a lot easier to deal
with a Solr API than making URLs yourself and parsing the responses.
Thanks,
Shawn
