Hi Folks, I'm going to setup a SOLR search server for the first time. Hope you don't mind a few beginner questions. Perhaps a quick summary of how I intend to use it will help.
The SOLR server will be installed on a single VPS host and bound to a internal IP (192.168.?.?). Search parameters will be received by a mod_perl script which will handle input validation, SOLR query language generation, submition to SOLR, SOLR response parsing and search request response. Should I go with Beta 4 or stable 3? Which servlet container would you suggest is the most efficient for my implementation? I'm unclear if the JDK is required or I can just install a JRE. I was guessing that Oracle's Java SE 7u7 would probably be the best implementation, yes/no? How relevant is the "Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server" book to working with version 4? I couldn't find a list of differences anywhere. Apreesh! >> Ken Clarke >> Contract Web Programmer / E-commerce Technologist