ColdFusion & Solr Integration Problems

Question

I've installed ColdFusion 9.01 on Fedora and installed the standalone version of Solr. My goal is to implement crawling iwth Nutch, and import the crawl results into Solr, and search the results in CF using the CFSEARCH.

I am able to crawl and get those results into Solr, but CF doesn't seem to know what remote collections might exist in Solr. It definitely sees that Solr is running but any attempts to crreate a collection fail in CF Admin, with an error. It is also asking for a local path which I don't quite udersand the relevance of, given that the actual searchable content is remote.

It seems that the CF/Solr implementation is incomplete or at least not fully documented.

I could of course simply access Solr via REST and go from there, but I'm wondering what I'm missing about all this.

Any advice appreciated.

Jeff

Charlie Arehart · Answer

Jeff, did you follow the steps about upgrading Solr covered in the install guide for the updater? It would be easy to miss (many don't even realize there is an install guide for the updater).

See the section, "Update Solr Search server". There are specific steps required for remote Solr installs (it can and does do what's needed to update the built-in Solr installation, of course).

The install guide is online at

http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/901/cf901install.pdf

Let us know if that helps.

/charlie arehart

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