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stlchristian / stlchristian.edu

Join me as I venture through creating a public Drupal website with all the features we'd ever dream of. This is bound to include some highs and lows, but we'll tackle this thing head-on! This will serve as a public repository to share the development progress of our new website, built on Drupal and hosted on Pantheon.
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Enable Apache Solr to offload search functionality #44

Closed ElliotFriend closed 9 years ago

ElliotFriend commented 10 years ago

Apache Solr is available as a service through Pantheon. We should take advantage of that, and allow our PHP workers to relax a touch :)

ElliotFriend commented 10 years ago

As an awesome added benefit of this, the contrib/apachesolr module comes with a "more like this" block!! It works super-well, and it is an excellent feature that I've been hoping to add. I might want to style it a little bit before pushing it up to production, though.

ElliotFriend commented 10 years ago

Successfully enabled and configured apache solr search. I'm still not terribly thrilled with the default styling (provided by TB University), but it's a nice feature to have going.

I can probably work up something a little better, but I might need to use on-server development via SFTP to make that happen with Pantheon. Or I could install Solr on my dev machine...

ElliotFriend commented 9 years ago

Got this up and running, everything seems to be going smoothly!