Moodlemoot Australia 2016 hackfest presentation. Install solr and global search

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MOODLEMOOT AUSTRALIA 2016 - PERTH 27th
- 29th
SEPTEMBER
Presented by David Monllao, Integrator and Senior Analyst
Developer
Install Solr and Global Search

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● Available from Moodle 3.1 onwards
● What is it?
○ A new Search engine plugin type
■ To store Moodle sites’ contents
○ A new Search API
■ So Moodle components can add stuff to
search engines
○ A UI to search the search engine contents
Global Search

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● Open source search platform
● Part of The Apache Software Foundation
● Scalable
Solr

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● Install the PECL extension
○ https://pecl.php.net/package/solr
● Restart your web server :)
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search#How_to_install_Solr
Solr PHP extension

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# Download solr latest stable version.
wget http://apache.mirror.serversaustralia.com.au/lucene/solr/6.2.1/solr-6.2.1.tgz
tar -xvzf solr-6.2.1.tgz
cd solr-6.2.1
# Start solr server.
bin/solr start
# Create an index to store your Moodle site contents.
bin/solr create -c mootau16index
Solr server

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Moodle setup

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Secure server accesses if the server is publicly available!
Security

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For more information contact:
moodle.com
davidm@moodle.com