Do you know how many customers your Magento store is losing just because your visitors can’t find the products they need since the search system is imperfect? Huge stores with an extensive amount of products suffer from it dramatically. Learn how to help your customers to find what they need and boost your sales by installing Apache Solr.
Apache Solr Advantages
Installation of Apache Solr for your Magento Store provides you with several advantages in comparison with the full-text search based on MySQL:
Zero results in tips or results correction;
Suggestions;
Clustering;
Attribute weight based on attribute settings;
Localized characters search;
Word delimiter (for example, a search of “spider-man”, “spiderman return”, or “spider-man”).
To install Solr and Jetty:
Find a suitable Solr distribution.
Solr 3.6.2
Solr 3.5.0
Solr 3.4.0
If you’re not sure what version of Solr to use, seeSupport Matrix for Solr and Magento EE.
As a user withrootprivileges, usewgetor a similar command to download the file to an empty directory such as/etc/solr. An example follows.
cd empty-directory
wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/3.6.2/apache-solr-3.6.2.tgz
Messages similar to the following display to confirm a successful download.
wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/3.6.2/apache-solr-3.6.2.tgz
--2012-11-01 16:20:16-- http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/3.6.2/apache-solr-3.6.2.tgz
Resolving archive.apache.org... 140.211.11.131
Connecting to archive.apache.org|140.211.11.131|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 78673382 (75M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `apache-solr-3.6.2.tgz'
100%[======================================>] 78,673,382 1.41M/s in 36s
2012-11-01 16:20:52 (2.08 MB/s) - `apache-solr-3.6.2.tgz' saved [78673382/78673382]