search

This section contains documentation for developers, explaining the Search API's basic architecture and giving examples of how certain extensions for it can be developed.

This page contains some documentations for developers who want to work with the Search API Solr Search module, either to build on it, use it in custom ways or to write patches for it.

This page documents special features you can use with Solr servers in the Search API, as well as some common pitfalls when using Solr.

Pecularities / Specifics
Supported server features
Hidden variables
Customizing your Solr server

This section documents all settings that are available when creating/editing a Search API server with the "Solr search" service class.

For using the Search API Solr Search module, you first need a Solr server with the appropriate configuration files. For that, you have two options: either installing Solr on your own server, or purchasing a server instance at a Solr hosting provider.

The most important thing to remember, for both variants, is to configure the Solr server with the correct configuration files. These come packaged with the Search API Solr Search module, inside the solr-conf/ directory. Use the configuration files inside the sub-directory which belongs to the version of Solr you (or your Solr host) are using.

Using a hosted solution

The Search API Solr search module provides a backend for the Search API which uses the popular Apache Solr search engine for storing and searching data. This handbook section documents its feature, how to set it up and some advanced features.