AEM Solr Search provides an intergration between AEM (CQ) and Apache Solr. It includes the following features:

• SolrJ OSGi bundle - aemsolrsearch-solrj
• Suite of search UI components (e.g., facets, search input fields, pagination, etc.)
• Server-side query proxy
• Quick start Solr distributions for development use
  • Apache Solr 4.10.4 - aemsolrsearch-quickstart
  • Apache Solr 5.4.1 - aemsolrsearch-vagrant
• Geometrixx Media sample integration.

Note: This README uses Google Analytics for tracking site visits using:

• Java 7 or greater
• Adobe AEM 6.1 or greater (with the Geometrixx Media Site)
• Maven 3.2.x

These instructions assume that AEM is running on localhost on port 4502 with the default admin/admin credentials.

1. Start AEM.

2. Deploy AEM Solr Search by running the following from the root project. This will deploy the core AEM Solr Search application framework.

    $ mvn clean install -Pauto-deploy-all
   

3. Deploy the Geometrixx Media sample bundles.

    $ mvn install -Pauto-deploy-geo
    $ mvn install -Pauto-deploy-sample
   

4. Start Jetty. This will take sometime the first time, as Solr will be fetched from a Maven repository.

    $ cd aemsolrsearch-quickstart
    $ mvn clean resources:resources jetty:run
   

5. In another terminal window run the index script.

    $ cd ../aemsolrsearch-geometrixx-media-sample
    $ ./index-geometrixx-media-articles.sh
   

6. Open a browser and visit:

   • Sample Geometrixx Media Search Page: http://localhost:4502/content/aemsolrsearch/aem-solr-search.html
   • Solr: http://localhost:8888/solr/

AEM Solr Search 2.0 now supports multiple deployment options. The Getting Started section described the traditional standalone Solr deployment for for Solr 4.x.

If you would like to try Solr 5 in SolrCloud mode, perform the following:

1. Ensure that steps 1-3 are complete in the Getting Started section.

2. Since Solr 5 is no longer packaged as a WAR file, we can no longer use the AEM Solr Search Quickstart project (aemsolrsearch-quickstart). However, we wanted to provided a working runtime. We opted for Vagrant and VirtualBox as our virtualization solution. Simply refer to aemsolrsearch-vagrant/README.md, perform the steps described, and then return to these instructions.

3. In a browser, visit http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr and edit the AEM Solr Search - Solr Configuration Service and set solr.mode to SolrCloud and set solr.master to one of the nodes in the cluster (i.e., http://localhost:8983/solr). Currently, the proxy does not detect the set of active nodes in Zookeeper.

4. Trigger a real-time index by creating a Geometrixx Media Article page or by running:

    $ cd aemsolrsearch-geometrixx-media-sample
    $ ./index-geometrixx-media-articles-solrcloud.sh
   

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