SUNScholar/Search Indexes

This procedure assumes that you have used the three step process to install DSpace and are using the XMLUI as default.

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

Setup solr search URL in config file.

nano /home/dspace/dspace-1.7.2-src-release/dspace/config/dspace-solr-search.cfg

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

##### Search Indexing #####
solr.search.server = http://localhost/solr/search

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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/DSDOC18/Discovery
• http://www.dspace.org/1_7_1Documentation/Discovery.html

Step 3

Type the following to rebuild the discovery index.

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