Solr

At Index Data I've lately been working on a Drupal module for Pazpar2 (http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2), our XML webservice based metasearch engine. Check it out in the git sandbox (http://drupal.org/sandbox/skomorokh/1103554) I've created (D6 for now but a D7 branch is on its way). While very much under development, basic functionality is all there and it would be great to get feedback as I polish it for release.

my presentation on OpenScholar at Merritt College, Oakland has been accepted for the Stanford DrupalCamp

any suggestions for topics, formats or co-presenters welcome

https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/sessions/drupal-openscholar-solr-aegir-n...

thanks

I can tell by the usage statistics that you haven't tried the Search API module yet! Run, don't walk, to the download page and give it a go. You'll have to pick yourself up a copy of the Entity module as well, but then you're all set.

Currently admins wanting to add Solr to their Drupal site have two options: Apache Solr Views and Searchlight.

Both can be used to construct views that filter content (including faceted search) on the basis of Solr indexes. Both projects - particularly Searchlight - are in active development.

It finally works as expected (well, almost - it's still alpha! :). You can try Provision available on GitHub: http://github.com/omega8cc/provision. It includes modified install script and hostmaster makefile to make your life easier.

[UPDATE: now it supports also SSL integration and apt-get Nginx versions, with Boost compatibility, but it should be at least nginx-0.6.36, so with Debian you need backports, and with Ubuntu you need at least Karmic or newer.]

We are hoping to use SOLR in a couple of non-standard implementations, and I just have a few questions.

1. If we want to index all of the documents in a specific file directory (e.g. TIFF images of scanned documents), can we do this directly with SOLR, or do we need Nutch? (I realize TIFFS are quite legacy but in this instance conversion to PDF is not an option.)

2. If there are specific documents on a remote site we want to index with SOLR (again, specific TIFF documents), what is the best way to accomplish this. (We have the specific URLs for these documents.)

Now, with more seeding :-) Download here. Instructions here.

What's new:
- New Drush scripts for quickly configuring sites:
- - E.g. $ drush quickstart-create all --domain=example.dev
- - Configures DNS, apache, database, downloads code with drush make, and opens firefox to start installer.
- - To delete: $ drush quickstart-destroy all --domain=example.dev
- Fixed 9 bugs.
- Lots of tweaks and polish.
- Better documentation
- 600kbps upload pipe now to help with seeds. Prepped several seeders. (A generous offer to HTTP seed in the works)

(Sorry about the list format, drupal.org ate my ul's)

This is the best version yet. I'm starting a project next week on it, so hopefully, it will get better. If you have any experiences you want to share, or suggestions, drop me a not in the issue queue.

Happy Drupaling :-)

We're pleased to announce new AWS AMIs for Mercury 1.1 on Ubuntu Lucid. These Beta AMIs were made using the instructions posted here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/70268. AMI IDs after the jump...

Hello,

I just created a torrent for Quickstart 0.5. New in this version:

- New features:
- New Drupal: Aegir!
- See ~/quickstart/aegir-install-0.4a7.sh.
- Not installed by default, pending beta release...
- New tools: git bazarr
- New IDE: eclipse (thanks DrUbuntu for inspiration and ppa)
- New PHP: imap, uploadprogress
- New Apache: ssl and solr on by default
- General cleanup
- Downgrade php5.3 to 5.2 for Aegir and Drupal messages

I want to give everyone a preview of what we're working on for Mercury 1.1: