Re: Customizing Solr GUI

2013-04-29 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Does the website have a middleware? As in, is it static website or something served dynamically from PHP, Ruby, Java, etc? If the later, then you do the same thing blacklight does: you run your Solr server and your middleware talks to it over HTTP connection. Then, you have to figure out how to get

Re: Customizing Solr GUI

2013-04-29 Thread kneerosh
Thanks a lot for the responses. Now Im sure I need blacklight. Suppose I had a website designed using any other standard method- how would I have embedded a solr search in it? Velocity & Blacklight are , as I understand useful when you are building a system from scratch and can design a new searc

Re: Customizing Solr GUI

2013-04-29 Thread Erick Erickson
Give me access to your raw Solr URLs, and I can submit the following: .../update?commit=ture&term.body=*:*<.query> which will remove all documents from your index. You really have to take control of the requests you allow to get to Solr... Best Erick On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Alexandre Raf

Re: Customizing Solr GUI

2013-04-26 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
So, building on this: 1) Velocity is an option for internal admin interface because it is collocated with Solr and therefore does not 'hide' it 2) Blacklight is the (Rails-based) application layer and the Solr is internal behind it, so it does provide the security. Hope this helps to understand th

Re: Customizing Solr GUI

2013-04-26 Thread Jack Krupansky
Generally, your UI web pages should communicate with your own application layer, which in turn communicates with Solr, but you should try to avoid having Solr itself visible to the outside world. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: kneerosh Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 12:46 P