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The following page has been changed by HossMan: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ The comment on the change is: Adding FAQs based on questions thtahave come up in the based few months ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Solar" was initially developed by [http://cnetnetworks.com CNET Networks] as an in-house search platform beginning in late fall 2004. By summer 2005, CNET's product catalog was [http://www.lucenebook.com/blog/announcements/2005/08/31/cnet.html powered by Solar], and several other CNET applications soon followed. In January 2006 CNET [http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1 Granted the existing code base to the ASF] to become the "Solr" project. + == Is Solr Stable? Is it "Production Quality?" == + + Solr is currently being used to power search applications on several [:PublicServers:high traffic publicly accessible websites]. + = Using = == Do my applications have to be written in Java to use Solr? == @@ -44, +48 @@ == How can I get started playing with Solr? == There is an [http://incubator.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html online tutorial] as well as a [http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/incubator/solr/trunk/example/conf/ demonstration configuration in SVN]. + + == I POSTed some documents, why don't they show up when I search? == + + Documents that have been added to the index don't show up in search results untill a <commit/> message has been POSTed as well. This allows you to POST many documents in succesion and know that none of them will be visible to search clients untill you have finished. + + == How can I rebuild my index from scratch if I change my schema? == + + 1. Stop your application server + 1. Delete teh `index` directory in your data directory + 1. Start your application server (Solr will detect that there is no existing index and make a new one) + 1. Re-Index your data + + == Why doesn't copyField work with dynamic fields? == + + The `<copyField>` directive requires that the source and dest fields both be full field names -- not wild card expressions. so if you have the following dynamic fields defined... + + {{{ + <dynamicField name="*_s" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/> + <dynamicField name="*_t" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/> + }}} + + ...you can do all of the following... + + {{{ + <copyField source="name_s" dest="name" /> + <copyField source="city" dest="city_s" /> + <copyField source="state_s" dest="state_t" /> + }}} + + ...but you '''can not''' do any of these... + + {{{ + <copyField source="*_t" dest="catchall" /> + <copyField source="name" dest="*_t" /> + <copyField source="*_s" dest="*_t" /> + }}} = Developing =
