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Wednesday 15. February 2012 Site Hashes and API Keys
In previous posts we talked about how you can index external websites' content into a Solr index using Apache Nutch and then search it from a TYPO3 website using EXT:solr.
The issue was that in our TYPO3 specific Solr schema.xml we have a field called the siteHash. The site hash helps to filter results so that you can index multiple sites into one index while still only getting results of the... [more]
Monday 13. February 2012 Indexing in v2.0 - Index Queue
During the T3DD11 we offered a full day tutorial to get you started with Apache Solr for TYPO3. As a big gift back to the TYPO3 community we added the Index Queue to the public version of the extension on TYPO3 forge. [more] Category: Content Indexing
Monday 13. February 2012 No results from Apache Solr? Check your Tomcat settings!
In one of our current customer projects we experienced random errors for queries to our Apache Solr Index. We sent a large amounts of facet queries and our results page kind of took very long to be built or stayed blank. We looked into the devlog, but we could not see any problems with the solr query sent by the plugin to the solr server.We started to investigate the case by looking at the... [more] Category: Configuration
Wednesday 18. January 2012 Templating in EXT:solr
For those still trying to bend their head around the templating engine in EXT:solr we have good news for you. We eventually managed to put together a page on the wiki explaining how templating works. Please have a look and let us now if there's anything we missed to explain. EXT:solr Templating explained [more] Category: Configuration
Wednesday 16. November 2011 Using Apache Nutch with Solr for TYPO3
In the last blog post we've shown you how to set up and configure Apache Nutch for indexing external websites. Since this post describes how to use Nutch stand-alone many of you have asked how to integrate it in an existing installation of Solr for TYPO3. The issue that appeared was that you cannot use the Solr schema provided by our TYPO3 extension because it requires several non-default... [more]Friday 23. September 2011 Index external websites with Apache Nutch
Life is not always easy for search engines nowadays. They have to provide a ton of features, scale up and down or simply offer good search results. Apache Solr is a state-of-the-art Enterprise search technology. It has proven many times that it does its job pretty well. But what if you are in need for a feature that is not supported by Solr? Besides indexing our own TYPO3 website we also want to... [more]Monday 29. August 2011 Sites vs. Indexes
This is the second part in our series Road to Apache Solr for TYPO3 Version 2.0 and 2.5-EAP. Today we'd like to talk about changes we made in regard to handling and maintaining of indexes. Since the introduction of the Index Queue in the EAP version we always had to manage and update two versions of the TYPO3 page indexer - frontend and Index Queue. Obviously this was not optimal and inevitably... [more] Category: Content Indexing, Releases
Tuesday 23. August 2011 Road to Apache Solr for TYPO3 Version 2.0 and 2.5-EAP
With this post we'd like to start a small series of updates about the development progress for the next release of Apache Solr for TYPO3. Most of the things will apply to both versions, the version of the Early Acces Program, as well as the public version. Some smaller parts will apply to the Early Access version only, but we'll of course let you know whenever that's the case. The current... [more] Category: Releases
Wednesday 29. June 2011 Indexing Multilingual Records
Recently we were approached by a member of the Apache Solr for TYPO3 Early Access Program who needed to index translated records of a custom extension they had built for one of their customers. Translation handling - an important and powerful TYPO3 feature Many projects out there use TYPO3 because of its powerful translation handling. The translation handling in TYPO3 is easy to understand and... [more] Category: Content Indexing
Tuesday 07. December 2010 File Indexing with Solr
File indexing with Indexed Search has been complicated and restricted to a few file formats only. Also other search engine integrations for TYPO3 have failed to provide good solutions to the issue of file indexing. With Apache Solr for TYPO3 we want to solve that problem. [more] Category: Content Indexing