https://www.davehall.com.au/tags/solr/Recent content in Solr on Dave Hall ConsultingHugoen-auSat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/06/26/multi-core-apache-solr-ubuntu-1004-drupal-auto-provisioning/Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/06/26/multi-core-apache-solr-ubuntu-1004-drupal-auto-provisioning/Apache Solr is an excellent full text index search engine based on Lucene. Solr is increasingly being used in the Drupal community for search. I use it for search for a lot of my projects. Recently Steve Edwards at Drupal Connect blogged about setting up a mutli core Solr server on Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic). Ubuntu 10.04LTS was released a couple of months ago and it makes the process a bit easier, as Apache Solr 1.https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/03/13/solr-replication-load-balancing-haproxy-and-drupal/Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2010/03/13/solr-replication-load-balancing-haproxy-and-drupal/I use Apache Solr for search on several projects, including a few with Drupal. Solr has built in support for replication and load balancing, unfortunately the load balancing is done on the client side and works best when using a persistent connection, which doesn’t make a lot of sense for PHP based webapps. In the case of Drupal, there has been a long discussion on a patch in the issue queue to enable Solr’s native load balancing, but things seem to have stalled.