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1. Solr Wiki
   1. General Information
   2. Solr Development
   3. Using Solr
      1. Installation and Configuration
      2. Search and Indexing
      3. Solr Clients
      4. Operations and Production
   4. How to edit this Wiki

General Information

• Solr Website

• Download latest Solr Release

• Introduction to Solr

• SOLR mailing lists: Nabble archives (browse) or Sign-up

• SolrTerminology

• The Solr FAQ

• The Solr Relevancy FAQ

• Powered by Solr

• SolrPerformanceData

• SolrResources - Blogs, Reviews, Articles, Presentations, etc...

• Support - People and companies for hire

• Solr Change Log with all the juicy info about recently committed features.

Solr Development

• Download newest Solr nightly build

• HackingSolr -- Info for people interested in hacking and customizing the Solr application

• TaskList of ideas for future development

• HowToContribute improvements

• Info For Committers

• Hudson Build Status

• Clover Test Coverage of Latest Build

Using Solr

Installation and Configuration

• General Installation Steps

• Containers

  • Tomcat

  • Jetty

  • Resin

  • JBoss

• ConfiguringSolr

  • SolrConfigXml

  • SchemaXml

  • AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters

  • SolrAndHTTPCaches

  • MultiCore

• SolrAdminGUI

Search and Indexing

• Indexing Documents

  • Adding Documents in XML format - Covers XML syntax for adds, deletes, commits and optimizes

  • Adding Documents in CSV format

  • AnalysisRequestHandler - Analyzing documents without indexing

  • UpdateRichDocuments

• Searching Solr

  • Request Handlers - Control the logic used to process requests. Several different Request Handlers are included with Solr, or you can write your own custom implementation.

  • Response Writers - Control the formating of the responses generated by Request Handlers. Several different Response Writers are included with Solr, or you can write your own custom implementation.

  • Input Parameters

    • CoreQueryParameters

    • CommonQueryParameters

    • SimpleFacetParameters

    • HighlightingParameters

    • MoreLikeThis

  • Search Components - Search Components provide core functionality to a Request Handler.

• SolrFacetingOverview

• SolrPlugins

• SolrRelevancyCookbook

Solr Clients

• IntegratingSolr

  • within libraries

  • with Ruby

  • with PHP

  • with Java

  • with Python

  • with JSON

  • with Forrest/Cocoon

  • with C#

  • with ColdFusion

  • with Drupal or apacheSolr project for Drupal

Operations and Production

• SolrCaching

• SolrPerformanceFactors

• SolrSecurity

• CollectionDistribution

  • SolrCollectionDistributionScripts

  • SolrCollectionDistributionStatusStats

  • SolrCollectionDistributionOperationsOutline

• DistributedSearch

• CollectionRebuilding

• MergingSolrIndexes

• SolrOperationsTools

• SolrJmx

How to edit this Wiki

This Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

• Create an account by clicking the "Login" link at the top of any page, and picking a username and password.

  • NOTE: The "ASF" question, is to help prevent link spamming bots. If you don't know what it means, googling for it might help.

• Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page

There are some conventions used on the Solr wiki:

• :TODO: (/!\ :TODO: /!\ ) is used to denote sections that definitely need to be cleaned up.

• Solr1.3 (<!> ["Solr1.3"]) is used to draw attention to which version of Solr a feature was (or will be) added to Solr.

Some general info on using this Wiki Software:

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with ["quoted words in brackets"]

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

• SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax