Solr search in magento enterprise
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The document discusses improving search functionality in Magento Enterprise using Solr, an open-source search engine that offers better performance and additional features compared to Magento's default search. It outlines the benefits of integrating Solr, installation instructions, and configuration steps necessary to enhance the customer search experience. Regular reviews of the Solr setup are recommended to ensure optimal performance and relevance to changing market conditions.
![4. Configure Magento to use SOLR
Replace the original Solr conf directory with the Magento conf files. The trick is just
to copy the directory from Magento, and replace the one in Solr. That's it!
In Magento, the folder is located in: [magento-instance-
root]/lib/Apache/Solr/conf.
In Solr, the folder is located in [Solr-instance-root]/example/solr/conf.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/solrsearchinmagentoenterprise-150924093203-lva1-app6892/85/Solr-search-in-magento-enterprise-13-320.jpg)
Solr search in magento enterprise
- 1. SOLR SEARCH IN MAGENTO ENTERPRISE
- 2. Are you asking yourself how to improve Magento search? The open source shop enterprise system Magento is ruling the online shop software market. But many shop owners know about its weak search performance. Mangento's search can be slow and uncomfortable for the customers. So many shop owners are asking themselves HOW help customers to find (and buy) the desired products with ease???
- 3. WHAT is SOLR? Solr is an open source search engine, which is used in various complex software projects. Solr is an alternative search functionality that can be used for free. In comparison to the standard search of Magento, Solr differentiates itself through a significantly higher performance. The library also offers additional features such as spelling correction or a faceted search which is very useful for example, for filter search.
- 4. Some reasons to use Solr with Magento •Magento ships with a sample Solr configuration that enables you to provide users with a powerful search engine without your needing to customize any code. •You get better performance of search, catalog views, and layered navigation. •When the system is under load, Solr avoids frequent updates of the MySQL catalogsearch_fulltext table and alleviates issues with database table locks.
- 5. Feature Magento with MySQL full-text search Magento with Solr search Full text search Yes and also supports two additional search modes: - Like - Combined (like and full text) Yes Search recommendations Yes Yes Faceted search (used in layered navigation) Yes Yes Range (such as price range) Yes Yes Sort-by options (for example, sort by relevance) Yes Yes Zero results tips or results correction No Yes Suggestions No Yes Clustering No Yes Attribute weight based on attribute settings No Yes Search localized characters No Yes Word delimiter No Yes
- 6. SOLR is integrated in Magento Enterprise Integration with Solr has been available since version 1.8 Enterprise of Magento. For now, this is only available for the Enterprise version, not for the Community version.
- 7. How to install it properly? In order to install it properly, you must have the four following .txt files: •protwords.txt – This is used for “Protected Words.” This file protects against the stemmer, reducing two unrelated words to the same base word and clearing up your search feature •spellings.txt – defines misspelled words and searches them appropriately •stopwords.txt – incorporates any words that stop the search •synonym.txt – provides synonyms in order to search more broadly
- 8. Technical part (if it’s not for you, just skip next 5 slides. We will tell nobody!)
- 9. 1. Make sure your Java JDK is installed sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk
- 10. 2. Install and configure Tomcat Installation: sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common tomcat6-user Configuration: vi /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml Add the following roles and user to the configuration. <role rolename="admin"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <user username="tomcat" password="password" roles="admin,manager"/> Restart the server: /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart If all goes well, go to http://hostname:8080
- 11. 3. Install SOLR Check for the latest distro here.. http://apache.rediris.es/lucene/solr/ Download release http://apache.rediris.es/lucene/solr/4.10.4/solr-4.10.4.zip Install & Configure 1. unzip solr-4.10.4.zip 2. mkdir /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps 3. cp solr-4.10.4/dist/solr-4.10.4.war /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/solr.war 4. cp -r solr-4.10.4/example/solr /usr/share/tomcat6/solr
- 12. 5. vi /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml <Context docBase="/usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/solr.war" debug="0" privileged="true" allowLinking="true" crossContext="true"> <Environment name="solr/home" type="java.lang.String" value="/usr/share/tomcat6/solr" override="true" /> </Context> 6. chown -r tomcat6.tomcat6 /var/lib/tomcat6 7. /etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart You should see Solr access on your Tomcat admin/manager page (http://hostname:8080/manager/html)
- 13. 4. Configure Magento to use SOLR Replace the original Solr conf directory with the Magento conf files. The trick is just to copy the directory from Magento, and replace the one in Solr. That's it! In Magento, the folder is located in: [magento-instance- root]/lib/Apache/Solr/conf. In Solr, the folder is located in [Solr-instance-root]/example/solr/conf.
- 14. Configure Solr in Magento System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog Search
- 15. Enable Search Recommendations – Yes to use Solr instead of MySQL. Fulltext search to generate the layered navigation. Search Recommendations Count – specifies the number of words that will be provided to the customer as recommended terms related to customers search. Show Results Count for Each Recommendation – if yes, the # of products found for the proposed search recommendation is shown in brackets next to it. Configure Solr in Magento
- 16. Catalog Navigation System -> Configuration -> Catalog tab. Set “Enable Solr Engine for Catalog Navigation” to YES to use Solr instead of the MySQL Fulltext search to generate the layered results.
- 17. FINAL THOUGHTS The above will only work if it is an ongoing aspect of your site operation and management! You can just ‘Set it and forget it!’ – you will have review what you have in place at least once a quarter to make sure that the configuration that is in place and still relevant to the current market. Examine the Search Terms list and focus on those terms with the greatest Number of Uses to make sure that customers are being directed where they need to go to convert and adjust based on new products, categories or changes in customer behaviour!
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