Question

I was trying to build a ‘site search’ on a simple http site.

I have a site, lets call it http://www.mycompany.com, that is pure html.

Is there an easy way to use solr to index the entire site to build a full text search using solr as the engine?

I googled for a bit and could not find anything specific of the type:
Do A
Do B
…
profit!

Let me also know if I am a bit off with what is solr for 😛

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Solr is only for indexing and searching text, it does not have a crawler since it’s out the project’s scope.

However take a look at Nutch, which is a crawler and not too hard to setup initially.

Nutch and Solr can be integrated if you need some Solr-specific feature to search the index.