Search

Search functionality for WeRelate.org

The search functionality is in two pieces: a customized SOLR search engine, and an indexing tool.

To build:

• create conf/indexer.properties from conf/indexer.properties.sample to match your environment
• create conf/scripts.conf from conf/scripts.conf.sample to match your environment
• run ant build

To run the customized SOLR search engine:

• Set several environment variables in tomcat
  • memcache_address is the address of your memcache server; e.g., 127.0.0.1:11211
  • db_url is a jdbc connection string
  • db_user is the database user name
  • dbPassword is the database password
• and set a property:
  • -Dsolr.solr.home will the root directory of your solr installation
• you may be able to set these in /etc/default/tomcat7 using something like
  • memcache_address=127.0.0.1:11211
  • db_url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/wikidb
  • db_username=user
  • db_passwd=secret
  • JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms1100m -Xmx1100m -Dsolr.solr.home=/mnt/index"
• Copy the contents of the dist directory to the directory pointed to by solr.solr.home
• Copy solr/apache-solr-3.1.0.war to your webapps directory

To run the indexer

• run bin/index.sh periodically

Note

• This search project depends upon the Names project, which is in the middle of being revised. If you want to use this Search project in its current state, contact me directly at dallan werelate.org and I will walk you through it.