NickVeenhof

A quick trick to solve this problem on OSX (Lion in my case) using macports

This is part 3 in a series of a few that helps people explore the Apache Solr module.

This tutorial explains visually how to install the Acquia Connector and how to connect your Drupal site to the Acquia Search service
It continues where screencast 2 stopped.

This is part 2 in a series of a few that helps people explore the Apache Solr module.

This tutorial explains visually how to install facet API and how to get started with basic faceted search.
It continues where screencast 1 stopped.

This is part 1 in a series of a few that helps people explore the Apache Solr module.

This tutorial explains visually how to install the module and how to get started with the solr server. My plan is to create a bunch of these tutorials to help people out. I hope I can cover all the UI + all API functions at least once in practice.

Last Monday (26th of march) I went to Barcelona to do my thesis defense in order to complete my Master. This defense existed out of a panel of three professors from the UPC university.

You don't *just* install a new version!

Embedded is the presentation I gave for the local user group in Belgium.

A quick and simple guide to get Drupal 7 and Apache Solr version 3.5 or higher running on your local development machine! For the ones that have been resistant in trying out Apache Solr, this is your chance. If you are running an OSX or Unix machine you could be running Apache Solr in under 5 minutes!

Follow these simple steps and you will become a Solr Master very soon!

Internally at Acquia we had the need to add a custom plugin to our Solr 3.4 Build. This was already developed for Solr 1.4 but since Solr 3.x is using a very different approach while building and compiling its contrib folder this became a challenge.
I'll warn you because this is probably a very uncommon use-case for 90% of the users.