Before using Acquia Search, you must create a Solr index for your Drupal application. Follow these steps to create and manage your indexes through the Acquia platform administration interface.

Create a Solr index

• Navigate to the desired Cloud Platform environment.
• Select the Search option in the left navigation pane.
• Select Add Search Index.
• Select the database for which you want to create the index.

• Based on your version of Drupal, select the default Solr configset that you want to apply, or apply a custom configset through the Configuration Set option.

  • Current Drupal version: Select the (Latest) Drupal 9 / 10 - Search API Solr 4.3.2 - Solr 8 - [drupal-4.3.2-solr-8.x-0] - v1.0
  • Drupal 8/9:  Select the (Latest) Drupal 8 / 9 - Search API Solr 4.2.0 - Solr 7 - [drupal-4.2.0-solr-7.x-0] - v2.0
  • Drupal 7: Select the (Latest) Drupal 7 - Search API Solr 4.4 - Solr 7 - [drupal-4.4-solr-7.x] v1.0 
  Note

  • You can use the Acquia-provided (Latest) Drupal 7 - Search API Solr 4.4 - Solr 7 - [drupal-4.4-solr-7.x] - v1.0 configset for Drupal 7 with both the Search API module and Apache Solr Search Integration module ecosystems.
  • These are the default Solr configsets, which are meant for single-language sites and optimized for English. If you need support for other languages or Solr configurations, apply a custom configset.
• Select Add to create the index.

It may take Acquia Search several minutes to create the index for you.

Delete a Solr index

• Navigate to the desired environment.
• Select the Search option in the left navigation pane.
• Find the index you want to delete and select the Delete index action.
• Confirm that you want to delete the index by entering CONFIRM where prompted.
• Select Delete to delete the index.

Managing search indexes