Getting started with Acquia Search¶

To start using Acquia Search with your website, complete the following steps:

1. Download and install the required modules on your website. For details, see Modules for Acquia Search.

2. Connect to your Acquia subscription with your Cloud Platform credentials.

3. Run cron manually to have Acquia confirm your search subscription status and allow you to enable the Acquia Search module. To run cron manually, complete the following steps:

   1. In the admin menu, select Reports.
   2. Click the Status report link.
   3. In the Cron maintenance tasks section, click the run cron manually link.

   After cron has finished, Acquia provisions Acquia Search for your website. The provisioning process can take several minutes to complete.

4. On the Modules admin page, enable the Acquia Search Solr module. Be sure to approve any additional required Acquia Search-related modules.

   Note

   While Acquia provisions Acquia Search for your website, your website may display the following error message on the Status report page:

   Your site was unable to contact the Apache Solr server.
   

   To view the Status report page, in the admin menu, select Reports, and then click the Status report link.

   After the provisioning process is complete, the previous error message should disappear, and you can continue with the following instructions.

5. Your Solr index of website content is built and maintained by periodic cron jobs. Depending on the amount of content on your website, the initial indexing process will take some time to complete. For more information, see Indexing your website.

   To determine the condition of the index, go to the Apache Solr Search > Default Index tab, in the Search Index Content section. For more information, see Search index reports.