ezfind in multisite environnement

Wednesday 06 January 2010 5:17:27 am

Hi Martin

eZ Find works perfectly in a multi-sites environment with only one Solr installation. In fact, eZ Find registers a "site ID" for each website, so that the solr indexes won't melt. Each time you'll make a query via eZ Find, it will embed your current site ID with your query.

Besides, you'll be able to make multi-site searches, depending of your eZ Find configuration. It's pretty well explained in eZ Find doc ;).

Wednesday 06 January 2010 6:46:07 am

Hi Martin, what types of solr queries do you mean?

We haven't enabled all of them, especially Solr 1.4 has many more parameters to expose in eZ Find

Again on the topic of multi site handling: in general, the best is to have every site using its own Solr index for the relevance calculations.

You can use one Solr instance/servelt container to serve multiple indexes as well, each of them optimally served. Take a look at this possible config to do so:

http://ez.no/doc/extensions/ez_find/2_1/advanced_configuration/using_multi_core_features

FYI: this config will also be a possibility from ez find 2.2 for having better support for multilingual sites (each index optimally configured for the language dependent analysis parts and also spellchecker, synonyms, .... per language)

Cheers

Paul

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