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Opensolr predefined CMS templates

Opensolr now provides instant Apache Solr integration with the most popular CMS systems.

How to define new fields in schema.xml

Editing the schema.xml using opensolr.com is easy. This describes how to easily define new fields and edit your schema.xml to fit your needs.

New Solr server available

A new solr server is available

EzCMD Applications

Ezcmd Apps aims to make it easier for IT professionals and everyone else, to perform every-day tasks or help with their job, on the web, by providing robust, reliable tools and web APIs, such as IP GeoLocation, DNS Hosting, DNS health diagnosis and many many more. Media tools, such image processing, video processing and others.

Protect your solr index data

Opensolr gives premium users the option of protecting their index data by using IP access lists.
Find out how you can add or remove certain IP addresses from accessing your index, and keep your data safe at all times.

Enable spellcheck and other handlers

How to make sure that your index will support spellcheck, terms suggestion inside the schema.xml

How to use with Drupal

Apparently using opensolr with drupal has been quite a challenge for some people.
It actually is not a challenge at all. All you have to do is simply use the drupal schema.xml and setup your collection information in your drupal solr module. And just rebuild your index.

It's that simple

Terms, suggestions, spellcheck, more like this

Many seem to ignore these mighty useful functions of the opensolr collections.

Keep reading to see all these in action

Open suggestions discussion

We've been thinking long and hard about stuff we can add to this service for FREE.

We can only come up with a hand-full of stuff for now. Why don't you guys give us a hand ? We'd love to hear your suggestions. So please use the comments section below this article, in order to start a new open discussion. By the way... Forums will be up soon too.

How can I get hosted with OpenSolr

You arrived at www.opensolr.com however, you can't seem to be able to understand how to get your Solr Hosting enabled ? Keep reading to learn more about the solr hosting capabilities and options that are currently available within OpenSolr.com

How to import data from XML files into your SOLR collection

We've seen here how we may setup our MySQL data importer and import data directly from our MySQL database inside the opensolr generic collections.
In quite the same manner, we're about to see how we can import data from any XML file through the SOLR HttpDataSource.
All we have to do is setup the db-data-config.xml file to accept our XML files.

How to setup solr MySQL data importer

If you don't feel like creating your own data importer to import data from your SQL database to your SOLR collections, we've also integrated the DIH  - Data Import Handler which now helps you define your SQL connection and query, and import your data to SOLR with just a few clicks.

How to add a new solr server

Managing collections is not all you can do with OpenSolr.com 
You may also add your own SOLR server to our servers array, and this way you will be able to manage it easily and also add your collections to it with just 1 click.

Keep reading to see how.

How does it work

Just what lays behind our SOLR Manager ? What are the technologies used and how is it all possible ? Click to find out.

 

How to create an index

Whether it is your simple site search, or you need SOLR to bring more advanced functionality to your website, you can do that now in a few easy steps.