Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Chaushu, Shani
Hi all, I want to build UI for Solr that get result to the user and also update the solr back (set for specific field) I start using ajax-solr because there is good tutorial and it's easy to use, but I didn't saw an example for update, and also I'm not sure the code is stable (no release in

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
You should not be exposing Solr directly to the user, that's like giving them a database admin account. Unless you REALLY know what you are doing. So, the Javascript UIs are mostly for internal purposes and for people to play with Solr. Therefore, usually, there is a server-side component that

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Doug Turnbull
Actually I disagree Alex. We build JS apps that talk straight to Solr all the time. However, we are sure to lock it down pretty heavily. Moreover, these cases almost never have sensitive information. You need to think through the worst case. As search is often a secondary artifact of a primary

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
I am happy to be corrected, but that repository says "This repository gives a basic outline to creating a functional reverse proxy with Nginx" as well as the famous last words ("e.t.c.") . Which is why I feel it is not exactly a turnkey solution I can recommend to a new Solr user. Is there an

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Doug Turnbull
Nope, it's more of a template. But I still think its simpler than coding up and deploying an API that acts as a relay to a search endpoint. Again, I don't think this is right for every use case. But we use it for http://solr.quepid.com In the nginx.conf, you need to basically update two spots #

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Doug Turnbull
That sounded defensive :) Just sharing our experience. I also don't mind being corrected, especially if there's an issue with the config here. Cheers -Doug On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Doug Turnbull < dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > Nope, it's more of a template. But I still

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
If it works for Quepid, it is good enough for me :-) I might actually try that for one of my upcoming projects where I do need a read-only Solr. But this is for read-only setup only. So, still not really useful for the original request's second part: "There is another option? Something that also

Re: Solr UI open source

2015-11-26 Thread Doug Turnbull
Oh right, yes I missed that. My fault. I definitely wouldn't open up the update portion! -Doug On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > If it works for Quepid, it is good enough for me :-) I might actually > try that for one of my upcoming projects