how to configure solr search on your site
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Exploring the world of Search
Who
Nick VeenhofSenior Search Engineer at Acquia
@Nick_vhhttp://nickveenhof.be
Drupal Core Search
Cron.php Indexing process
Drupal Core Search
• HTML Tag Scores• <H1> = 25• <H2> = 18
• Accent Removal• Montréal => Montreal
• Stemming• skips, skipping = skip
Tip: Use porterstemmer to improve stemming in Drupal Core Search
Drupal Core Search
• SQL Not optimized for full text search
• Limited Operators• Slow and not scalable
enough• Stemming needs to happen
in the PHP side, not optimized
• Dead ends
Alternatives
• Google Custom Search• Fuzzy Search• Elasticsearch• Google Search Appliance• …
Apache Solr Search
Search API (+ Solr)
What is Solr?
• Based on Lucene• Written in Java, needs Java container
such as Tomcat or Jetty• Separate Server• Mathematical Indexing• Fast!• Replication / Solr Cloud• Multiple indexes (Multicore)• Which version to choose?
Architecture
Webserver/Drupal
*SQL
Solr
GET or POSTsearch
POSTindex
DIY?
http://nickveenhof.be/blog/simple-guide-install-apache-solr3x-drupal7
Careful…
• No Security• High Availability is not trivial
Drupal Modules
Apache Solr & Search API
• In Common• Search pages• Solr Search• Facet API• Autocomplete• Attachments• Sorting• Solr Configs!• …
• Differences• Architected for multisite• Architected for large-scale sites• Optimized for Solr and
fault-tolerant
• Location based Search• Views based
Time for a demo!
Modules Used in Demo
• Search keywords (apachesolr)• Spelling corrections (apachesolr)• There is an autocomplete textbox (apachesolr_autocomplete)• Autocomplete also has the spelling corrections + shows the amount of results of your
query (apachesolr_autocomplete)• facets (facetapi)
• facets with a tagcloud (facetapi_tagcloud)• facets with checkboxes (facetapi)• facets with a slider (facetapi_slider)• facets that are collapsible (facetapi_collapsible)• facets with range -> http://drupal.org/project/date_facets
• sort block (tuned by apachesolr_sort)• relevancy tuning (apachesolr_proximity)• Display Suite search result theming, optimized for Apache Solr(ds & ds_search)• Attachment search. (apachesolr_attachments)• Clean URL's of facets. (facetapi_pretty_paths)• More like this. (apachesolr)
Powered by Free Tier Search (acquia_connector + acquia_search)
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• Acquia Search – Starter Kit for Free comes with:
2,000 queries/ month 5000 docs indexed
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