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This page describes how to configure the Content Indexer submodule of the Magnolia Solr module to index Magnolia workspaces and crawl a website. Solr module allows you to use Apache Solr, a standalone enterprise-grade search server with a REST-like API, for indexing and crawling Magnolia content, especially if you need to manage assets in high volumes (100,000+ DAM assets).

Configuring Solr clients

From version 5.2 the Solr module supports multiple Solr servers/cores. You can configure a client for every server/core under Configuration > /modules/solr-search-provider/config/solrClientConfigs. It's recommended to have one client named default. This default client is used when no specific client is defined for the indexer, crawler, or search result page template.

If you need to have more servers/cores, duplicate the default client and change the baseURL property to point to another server/core.

Node name

Value

  solr-search-provider


  config


  solrClientConfigs


  default


   allowCompression

false

   baseURL

http://localhost:8983/solr/magnolia

   connectionTimeout

100

   soTimeout

1,000

The value entered for the baseURL property should conform with the following syntax:

<protocol>://<domain_name>:<port>/solr/<solr_core_name> 

If the Solr server is installed as described in Installing Apache Solr, then the value is  http://localhost:8983/solr/magnolia For a description of the other properties see the HttpSolrClient.Builder Javadoc and Using SolrJ - Common Configuration Options.

Indexing Magnolia workspaces

The Content Indexer module is a recursive repository indexer and an event based indexer. You can configure multiple indexers for different sites and document types. The content indexer also allows you to crawl external websites using JSoup and CSS selectors. You then define different field mappings that will be obtained for each node and indexed in the Solr index.

IndexService

Both the indexer and the crawler use the IndexService to handle the indexing of a content. A basic implementation is configured by default: info.magnolia.search.solrsearchprovider.logic.indexer.BasicSolrIndexService. You can define and configure your own IndexService for specific needs.

Implement the IndexService interface:

IndexService
public class I18nIndexerService implements info.magnolia.module.indexer.indexservices.IndexService {

   private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(I18nIndexerService.class);

   @Override
   public boolean index(Node node, IndexerConfig config) {
      ...

For a globally configured indexing service, register the IndexService in the configuration of the Content Indexer module. For your custom indexing service, use the  indexServiceClass   (see above in the properties table):

Node nameValue

 modules


 content-indexer


 config


 indexServiceClass

 info.magnolia.search.solrsearchprovider.logic.indexer.BasicSolrIndexService

Indexer configuration

You can configure an indexer in Configuration > /modules/content-indexer/config/indexers. See an example configuration for indexing assets and folders in the DAM workspace or the below example configuration for indexing of content in the website workspace:

Node nameValue

 modules


 content-indexer


 config


 indexers


 websiteIndexer


 clients


 default

default

 fieldMappings


 abstract

abstract

 author

author

 date

date

 teaserAbstract

mgnlmeta_teaserAbstract

 text

content

 title

title

 enabled

true

 indexed

false

 pull

false

 rootNode

/

 type

website

 workspace

website

Properties

enabled

required

true enables the indexer configuration. false disables the indexer configuration.

indexed

required

Indicates whether indexing was done. When Solr finishes indexing content-indexer will set this property to true. You can set it to false to trigger re-indexing.

nodeType

optional, default is mgnl:page

JCR node type to index. For example, if you were indexing assets in the Magnolia DAM you would set this to mgnl:asset.

pull

optional, default is false (push)

Pull URLs instead of pushing. When true Solr will use Tika to extract information from a document, for instance a PDF. When false it will push the collected information using a Solr document.

assetProviderId

optional , default is jcr

If pull is set to true, specify an assetProviderId to obtain an asset correctly.

rootNode

required

Node in the workspace where indexing starts. Use this property to limit indexing to a particular site branch.

type

required

Sets the type of the indexed content such as website or documents. When you search the index you can filter results by type.

workspace

required

Workspace to index.

indexServiceClass

optional (Solr module version 5.2+)

Custom IndexService used by this indexer. If not defined, the global one is used.

fieldMappings

required

Field mappings defines how fields in Magnolia content are mapped to Solr fields. Left side is Magnolia, right side is Solr.

<Magnolia_field>

<Solr_field>

You can use the fields available in the schema. If a field does not exist in Solr's schema you can use a dynamic field mgnlmeta_* . For instance if you have information nested in a deep leaf of your page stored with property specComponentAbstract , you can map this field with mgnlmeta_specComponentAbstract . The indexer contains a recursive call which will explore the node's child leaves until it finds the property.

clients

optional, default is default (Solr module version 5.2+)

Solr clients which will be used by this indexer. Allows to index content for multiple instances of Solr.

<client-name>


Crawler configuration

The crawler mechanism uses the Scheduler to crawl a site periodically.

You can configure crawlers in Configuration > /modules/content-indexer/config/crawlers/.

Crawler properties

enabled

required

true enables the crawler. false disables the crawler.

When a crawler is enabled info.magnolia.module.indexer.CrawlerIndexerFactory registers a new scheduler job for the crawler automatically. 

depth

required

The max depth of a page in terms of distance in clicks from the root page. This should not be too high, ideally 2 or 3 max.

nbrCrawlers

required

The max number of simultaneous crawler threads that crawl a site. 2 or 3 is enough.

crawlerClass

optional, since version 3.0, default value is info.magnolia.module.indexer.crawler.MgnlCrawler

Implementation of edu.uci.ics.crawler4j.crawler.WebCrawler which is used by the Crawler to crawl sites.

catalog

optional, since version 3.0, default value is content-indexer

Name of the catalog where the command resides.

command

optional, since version 3.0, default value is crawlerIndexer

Command which is used to instantiate and trigger the crawler.

activationOnly

optional, since version 3.0

If it's set to true then crawler should be triggered only during activation. No scheduler job will be registered for this crawler.

(warning) The jcrItems property (see below) has to be configured too for this feaure to work.

delayAfterActivation

optional, since version 3.0, default value is 5s

Defines the delay (in seconds) after which crawler should start when activation is done. Default value is 5s.

cron

optional, default is every hour 0 0 0/1 1/1 * ? *

A CRON expression that specifies how often the site will be crawled. CronMaker is a useful tool for building expressions.

type

optional

Sets the type of the crawled content such as news. When you search the index you can filter results by type.

indexServiceClass

optional, since version 5.2

Custom IndexService used by this crawler. If not defined, the global one is used.

clients

optional, since version 5.2 , default is default client

Solr clients which will be used by this indexer. Allows index content into multiple Solr instances.

<client-name>

required

Name of the client.

fieldMappings

required

Field mappings defines how fields parsed from the site pages are mapped to Solr fields. Left side is Solr field, right side is the crawled site.

<site_field>

required

You can use any CSS selector to target an element on the page. For example, #story_continues_1 targets an element by ID.

You can also use custom syntax to get content inside attributes. For example, meta keywords are extracted using meta[name=keywords] attr(0,content). This will extract first value of keywords meta element. If you don't specify anything after the CSS selector then the text contained in the element is indexed. meta[name=keywords] would return an empty string because a meta element does contain any text, keywords are in the attributes. To get the value of a specific attribute specify attr(<index>,<Solr_field_name>). If you set index=-1 then all attributes are extracted and separated by a semicolon ;.

jcrItems

optional , since version 3.0

List of JCR items. If any of this items is activated crawler will be triggered.

<item_name>

optional, since version 3.0

Name of the JCR item.

workspace

required, since version 3.0

Workspace where JCR item is stored.

path

required, since version 3.0

Path of the JCR item.

siteAuthenticationConfig

optional , since version 5.0.2

Authentication information to allow crawling password restricted area.

username

required, since version 5.0.2

Username which is used for login into restricted area.

password

required, since version 5.0.2

User's password used for login into restricted area.

loginUrl

required, since version 5.0.2

Url to page with login form.

usernameField

required, since version 5.0.2, default value is mgnlUserID

Name of input field for entering the username in login form.

passwordField

required, since version 5.0.2, default value is mgnlUserPSWD

Name of input field for entering the password in login form.

logoutUrlIdentifier

required, since version 5.0.2, default value is mgnlLogout

String which identifies the logout Url. Crawler doesn't crawl over the urls which contains logoutUrlIdentifier to avoid logout.

Node nameValue

 bbc_co_uk


 clients


 default

default

 sites


 bbc


 url

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

 fieldMappings


 abstract

#story_continues_1

 keywords

meta[name=keywords] attr(0,content)

 depth

2

 enabled

false

 nbrCrawlers

2

 type

news

Configuration of crawler commands

You can configure crawler commands in Configuration > /modules/content-indexer/commands/.

By default, the crawler mechanism is connected with the CleanSolrIndexCommand to clean the index from outdated indexes (pages). The CleanSolrIndexCommand is chained before the CrawlerIndexerCommand.

Node nameValue

 modules


 content-indexer


 config


 indexers


 crawlers


 commands


 content-indexer

Note: Name of the folder is referenced by the crawler catalog property.

 <crawler-name>

Note: Name of the node is referenced by the crawler command property.

 cleanSolr


 class

info.magnolia.search.solrsearchprovider.logic.commands.CleanSolrIndexCommand

 <crawler-name>

Note: Name of the node is arbitrary.

 class

info.magnolia.module.indexer.crawler.commands.CrawlerIndexerCommand

Properties for the cleanSolr command

max

optional, since version 5.0.1, default value is 500

Maximum number of documents to be checked.

onlyHead

optional, since version 5.5.1, default value is false

If set to true, only the head of the page is requested instead of fetching the whole page.

If the deleteNoIndex property is set to true, then this configuration is ignored, because the robots meta tag cannot be resolved from the head request.

followRedirects

optional, since version 5.5.2, default value is false

If set to true, redirects are followed and the status code of the last page is evaluated.

statusCodes

optional, since version 5.0.1

List of status codes. If a page returns any of the status codes listed, then the page will be removed from the index.

By default, there is no list but if a page returns 404 at any time, the page is removed from the index. 

deleteNoIndex

optional, since version 5.5.4, default value is false

If set to true, then also pages with the robots meta tag set to noindex will be removed from the index.

skipIfAlreadyRunning

optional, since version 5.5.1, default value is false

If set to true, any previously running CleanSolrIndexCommand is finished and the new one is skipped.

Normally, if the CleanSolrIndexCommand is already running for the crawler, it is stopped and a new one is started.

Crawling triggered by publishing (activation)

From version 3.0, crawlers can also be connected with the publishing (activation) process by adding info.magnolia.module.indexer.crawler.commands.CrawlerIndexerActivationCommand into command chain with activation command. By default, this is done for these commands:

  • If you are using the Publishing module:
    • catalog: default, command: publish - configured under /modules/publishing-core/commands/default/publish
    • catalog: default, command: unpublish - configured under /modules/publishing-core/commands/default/unpublish
  • If you are using the Activation module:
    • catalog: default, command: activation - configured under /modules/activation/commands/default/activate/activate
    • catalog: default, command: deactivate - configured under /modules/activation/commands/default/deactivate
  • catalog: default, command: personalizationActivation - configured under /modules/personalization-integration/commands/default/personalizationActivation

If you are using custom activation command and you wish to connect it with crawler mechanism, you can use info.magnolia.module.indexer.setup.AddCrawlerIntoCommandChainTask install/update task for it.

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