Alfresco Search Services 1.4 is based in SOLR 6, but this product includes some additional folder for storage that should be managed when installing:
- /opt/alfresco-search-services/data - Default SOLR Indexes files
- /opt/alfresco-search-services/contentstore - SOLR Content Store used by Alfresco to provide additional searching features. Note that this folder will be removed from Alfresco Search Services 2.0
- /opt/alfresco-search-services/solrhome - Default SOLR Core configuration files
Using the ZIP Distribution file
When installing Alfresco Search Services from the ZIP Distribution file, using an external volume for the storage is a common scenario.
The following approach will provide a single parent folder for every storage resource.
$ cd /opt
$ unzip alfresco-search-services-1.4.2.zip
$ cd alfresco-search-services
$ sed -i 's/alfresco.secureComms=https/alfresco.secureComms=none/' solrhome/templates/rerank/conf/solrcore.properties
$ mv solrhome cores
$ mkdir solrhome
$ mv cores solrhome
$ ./solr/bin/solr start -a "-Dcreate.alfresco.defaults=alfresco,archive -Ddata.dir.root=/opt/alfresco-search-services/solrhome/data" -s /opt/alfresco-search-services/solrhome/cores -f
$ tree -L 1 solrhome
solrhome
├── contentstore
├── cores
└── data
Once these steps are applied, every required file will be available under /opt/alfresco/solrhome folder. This will help to backup operations and external volume mounts.
Using Docker Compose
When using Docker Compose, storage folders can be mounted in your local storage using a similar approach.
version: "2"
services:
solr6:
image: alfresco/alfresco-search-services:1.4.2.2
mem_limit: 1200m
environment:
#Solr needs to know how to register itself with Alfresco
SOLR_ALFRESCO_HOST: "alfresco"
SOLR_ALFRESCO_PORT: "8080"
ALFRESCO_SECURE_COMMS: none
#Alfresco needs to know how to call solr
SOLR_SOLR_HOST: "solr6"
SOLR_SOLR_PORT: "8983"
#Create the default alfresco and archive cores
SOLR_CREATE_ALFRESCO_DEFAULTS: "alfresco,archive"
SOLR_JAVA_MEM: "-Xms1g -Xmx1g"
ports:
- 8083:8983
volumes:
- ./solr-data/contentstore:/opt/alfresco-search-services/contentstore
- ./solr-data/data:/opt/alfresco-search-services/data
With this configuration, every required storage file will be available under solr-data folder. Configuration files in /opt/alfresco-search-services/solrhome will be still available internally in the Docker container, but you can also mount them externally if required.
