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To gain the benefits of faceting and filtering in XMLUI, all you need to do is enable Discovery. The rest of these page describes some advanced uses of Solr - if you want to query Solr directly for theme customization or read DSpace metadata from outside DSpace. |
Please, note, that to get data from Solr, you don't technically need to enable the Discovery aspect, but you do need to populate the index. The statistics core is populated automatically in DSpace 1.6+. To populate the search core (DSpace 1.7+), you need to run [dspace]/bin/dspace update-discovery-index (you will probably want to schedule it in cron to run periodically, too). There should be no reason to access the oai core (DSpace 3.0), because it contains the same information as the search core, but if you want to populate it, run [dspace]/bin/dspace oai import.
Connecting to Solr
By default, the DSpace Solr server is configured to listen only on localhost, port 8080 (unless you specified another port in Tomcat configuration and the [dspace]/config/modules/discovery.cfg config file). That means that you cannot connect from another machine to the dspace server port 8080 and request a Solr URL - you'll get a HTTP 403 error. This configuration was done for security considerations - Solr index contains some data that is not accessible via public DSpace interfaces and some of the data might be sensitive.
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Using the knowledge of particular fields from Solr Admin and Solr syntax (SolrQuerySyntax, CommonQueryParameters) you can make your own search requests. You can also read a brief tutorial to learn the query syntax quickly.
You can also look at the Tomcat log file to see queries generated by XMLUI in real time
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