'Setting Up a Solr Index '
Setting up a solr index isn’t that hard, but I found the documentation to be somewhat hard to find. It only took me a few hours from start to finish to go from download to indexing my documents, but I think it could have happened a lot faster if I had some of the below information. I’m assuming you’ve already downloaded solr and you’re now looking at a directory with a bunch of files in it.
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Make a copy of the example directory found in the solr directory. To make obvious, I just named it after the site I’m working on.
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You’ll want to edit the solr/conf/schema.xml file found in there. It’s actually a really good sample file to get started with, so you’ll learn a whole bunch by starting there. Information on the solr schema. You’ll need to modify the configuration file for solr to function correctly with your schema.
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If you’re using a PHP and curl, and you get the error “missing content stream”, you need to make sure you set your curl header
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(“Content-Type: text/xml”));
- At one point, I received the error “Unexpected EOF in prolog” - this was because I originally had a “\n” at the end of my header (see previous note). Removing it solved my problem.
Here’s a good solr starting point that covers the schema and field types.
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