SUNScholar/Discovery/3.X

Requirements

Before attempting SOLR discovery setup please make sure the following are correct:

1. Tomcat is listening on TCP port 80.
2. The SOLR webapp is correctly published.

Step 1

Edit the solr search URL in the discovery service setup file.

nano /home/dspace/source/dspace/config/modules/discovery.cfg

Make sure the solr URL is as follows by removing port 8080. See example below.

#---------------------------------------------------------------#
#-----------------DISCOVERY CONFIGURATIONS----------------------#
#---------------------------------------------------------------#
# Configuration properties used solely by the Discovery         #
# faceted-search system.                                        #
#---------------------------------------------------------------#
##### Search Indexing #####
search.server = http://localhost/solr/search

#Char used to ensure that the sidebar facets are case insensitive
#solr.facets.split.char=|||

#All metadata fields that will not end up in the index, this is a comma separated list
index.ignore=dc.description.provenance

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NANO Editor Help

CTL+O	= Save the file and then press Enter
CTL+X	= Exit "nano"
CTL+K	= Delete line
CTL+U	= Undelete line
CTL+W	= Search for %%string%%
CTL+\	= Search for %%string%% and replace with $$string$$
CTL+C	= Show line numbers

More info = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor)

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Step 2

Please refer to the official DSpace documentation

• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Discovery

Basically you have to edit the following file:

nano /home/dspace/source/dspace/config/spring/api/discovery.xml

Step 3

Type the following to rebuild the discovery index.

/home/dspace/bin/dspace update-discovery-index -b

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