Acquia Search is an easy-to-configure search service that lets you improve scalability, relevance, and performance of Drupal's search capabilities. When you add Acquia Search to your website, it creates a rich index of your website content so that your site visitors can find content faster and stay on your website longer. For more information, visit Acquia Search.
Multi-Experience Operations supports Acquia Search. Acquia Search is powered by Solr, which helps you deliver fast and engaging site search experiences. Solr is a popular open-source search service that enables Drupal applications to index site content and fetch search query results.
Adding search index¶
Before using Acquia Search, you must create a Solr index for your Drupal application. To add a search index:
- Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
- Go to Codebases and select a codebase.
Click Environments and select an environment for which you want to view the add the search index.
- Click Add Search Index.
- Perform the steps in Managing search indexes.
Adding Configset¶
Solr configuration settings, otherwise known as “configsets”, define the data types and behavior available in Solr. By default, Acquia Search indexes are configured with an Acquia-provided configset for English-language content. It is based on the out-of-the box settings provided by the Search API Solr Drupal module when installed in a bare-bones Drupal site using the English language.
If your Drupal site shows the message “It is advisable to download and deploy an updated config.zip to your Solr server”, or you need to otherwise tweak the behavior of the Acquia-hosted Solr backend, you must deploy new configuration files into Solr.
The following are some example use cases for using a custom configset:
- Altering the list of synonyms and stopwords used by Solr.
- Configuring Solr for various languages.
- Customizing how indexing and searching works in Solr.
To add a Configset:
- Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
- Go to Codebases and select a codebase.
- Click Environments and select an environment for which you want to view the add the search index.
- Go to Configsets > Add Configset.
- Perform the steps in Custom Solr configuration.