Create an Opensolr Index

Create an Opensolr Index

An Opensolr Index holds your data and answers your searches. Creating one takes a region and a name, nothing else.

01 · Steps

1. In the top menu open Solr > Add New Index. The page Add New Index — Select Region lists the regions you can use.
2. If you like, narrow the list with the Filters on the left: Region, Version, Country, Type, Crawler. Regions.
3. Click a region card. The Add a new index window opens with the region and its Solr version on top.
4. In Index Name, keep the random name it comes with or type your own: letters, digits and the underscore, up to 50 characters. Index names.
5. Click Add Index and wait while it says “Please wait...”. You land on Solr > Index List, with the new index in it.

02 · What a new index has

• The default configuration of the region you picked. There is no index type to choose: you change the configuration later in the Configuration tab.
• A login: username opensolr, your API key as the password. Connect to your index.
• Open to every IP address through its default rule all on /; to allow only your own servers, add their rules and remove that one: IP restriction.
• No replica servers: an index made here is standalone. For one on three servers, see Clusters and replicas.

Using Drupal or WordPress? The free Drupal module and WordPress plugin install what the index needs when you connect them.

03 · How many

Your plan sets how many indexes you can have. Past that number, Add Index answers “Your account type does not allow you to add more than” your count, with a link to the upgrade options. Deleting an index frees its place.

04 · Other ways

• A copy of an index you already have: Replicate an index.
• From your own code: API: Create New Solr Index.