I’ve been distracted with other things the past few months but I’ve still had this on the back-burner. I’ve had a lot of difficulties integrating LocalSOLR into the apachesolr drupal module. The projects upgrade to 1.4 made me start from scratch again with the SOLR configuration, but with some patients and some help from pjaol (LocalSOLR author) I have a working copy. I’m still struggling right now however making it run with other search handlers, like spelling and highlighting, but these aren’t really that important to me anyway. I’ll have the code up soon I promise!
If you need it right away, email me and I can walk you through it.
Kurt, Thanks for the sharing your experience with this.
I’m considering using Solr for a project to be launched in about 6 weeks. Our use case is exactly the same as yours. Do you think it’ll be straightforward to pull this off within this time frame?
Also, at the Acquia Search talk on Solr, they mentioned geo spatial as a potential upcoming feature they’ll be working on.
Comment by Alex Dergachev — March 11, 2009 @ 8:32 pm
Hi Alex,
I haven’t used Acquia so I can’t speak to it. Are you implementing Solr in Drupal? Setting this all up is actually very quick. I’d say 6 week is plenty of time. Let me know if you have any questions on starting this up. jarchow.kurt@gmail.com
Comment by jarchowk — March 11, 2009 @ 9:09 pm
Yeah, doing exactly what you’re doing. My main concern is LocalSolr.
It’s really surprising that virtually no-one but you mentioned on the issue queue for drupal.org/project/apachesolr
Comment by Alex Dergachev — March 11, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
LocalSolr will work with the current Apachesorl module – but I haven’t got it to work with the Spell or Highlighting request handlers. They aren’t important for my project, but I’ll need to fix it if its going to be a contributing module.
I was actually really surprised no one showed any interest in the project. Its a very powerful module considering everyone will be walking around with a GPS attached to their hip soon.
Comment by jarchowk — March 12, 2009 @ 12:01 pm