Solr Search Prerequisites

Satisfy all the prerequisites listed on the page Prerequisites before continuing.

Solr Cloud

  • Solr version 7.x, configured with SolrCloud
  • Basic authentication is supported. 
    • If Solr is secured, a username/password to read/write/delete to and from the collection.

Solr Stand Alone

  • Solr v7.x, v8.x in Stand Alone Mode
If you experience problems with the length of the allowed request in SOLR you can increase requestHeaderSize in the file jetty.xml under <solr>/server/etc/jetty.xml
  • Basic authentication is supported. 
    • If Solr is secured:
      • Username/password to read/write/delete to and from the collection.
  • Access to the Solr user interface, to create collections, if necessary (if using Manual Index creation option). 
    • You must be able to create one collection per Content Source.
    • Solr in Stand Alone mode does not have an API to create indexes without first configuring the index