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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Managing solrconfig.xml


As we already know now, solrconfig.xml forms the heart of Solr when it comes to configuring Solr.

There are two ways in which this file is modified:

  • By making direct changes in solrconfig.xml
  • Using the config API to create configoverlay.json, which holds configuration overlays to modify the default values specified in solrconfig.xml

The solrconfig.xml file is used to configure the admin web interface. It can be used to change parameters for replication and duplication. We can change the request dispatcher too using solrconfig.xml. Various listeners and request handlers can be configured using solrconfig.xml.

Go to any of the conf directories for a collection and you will find solrconfig.xml inside. Navigate to SOLR_HOME/server/solr/configsets and you will see various configurations that follow best practices for configuring Solr.

Solr allows you to specify a variable for the property value, which can be replaced at runtime with the following syntax:

${propertyname[:default...