Getting started with Acquia Search¶

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

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

2. Connect to your Acquia subscription with your credentials. For more information about connecting to an Acquia subscription, see Installing the Acquia Connector.

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. In the admin menu, select Modules to open the Modules page. In the Acquia Connector section, enable the Acquia Search module, and then click Save configuration.

   Since Acquia Search is dependent on Apache Solr, the Acquia Search module will ask if you want to enable the Apache Solr Search, and Apache Solr framework modules. Approve the module request. While Acquia provisions your website, you may see the following error message on the Status report page. To view the Status report page, in the admin menu, select Reports, and then click the Status report link.

   Your site was unable to contact the Apache Solr server.
   

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

5. Cron runs build and maintain the Acquia Search index of your website content. Depending on the amount of content on your website, the initial indexing process will take some time to complete. You can set the indexing rate for your website content during each cron run on the Apache Solr search > Default Index tab, under Actions. For more information, read Indexing your website. You can search your website when fully indexed. You can check the state of the index on the Apache Solr Search > Default Index tab, under Search Index Content. For more information, read Search index reports.

After your website is fully indexed, you can take advantage of the power of Acquia Search. When visitors enter searches into the search field or on the search page at http://example/?q=search (where example is the URL of your server) Acquia Search will provide the search results.