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How to set up Solr server for TYPO3 using DDEV?

I have TYPO3 development environment set up using DDEV. Now I want to add Solr server to it, and use Ext:Solr extension for indexing and searching.

How can I set up Solr server to be available from the ddev web container?

Solution

  • EDIT: The instruction how to configure Solr Server for TYPO3 has been included in the official ddev-contrib repository, and can be found here: https://github.com/drud/ddev-contrib/tree/master/docker-compose-services/typo3-solr

    The original answer:

    In order to configure Solr server for TYPO3 using DDEV you need to follow these steps:

    1. Configure Solr container

      Create .ddev/docker-compose.solr.yaml file:

      version: '3.6'

services:
  solr:
    container_name: ddev-${DDEV_SITENAME}-solr
    image: typo3solr/ext-solr:10.0.1
    restart: "no"
    ports:
      - 8983
    labels:
      com.ddev.site-name: ${DDEV_SITENAME}
      com.ddev.approot: $DDEV_APPROOT
    environment:
      - VIRTUAL_HOST=$DDEV_HOSTNAME
      - HTTP_EXPOSE=8983
    volumes:
      - "./solr:/opt/solr/server/solr"
      # If you want your solr to persist over `ddev stop` and `ddev start` then uncomment the following line
      # If you uncomment it and want to flush your data you have to `ddev stop` and then
      # `docker volume rm ddev-<projectname>_solrdata` to destroy it.
#      - solrdata:/var/solr
  web:
    links:
      - solr:$DDEV_HOSTNAME

volumes:
  # solrdata is a persistent Docker volume for this project's solr data
  solrdata:

      For more details about the configuration, take a look at ddev documentation: https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/extend/custom-compose-files/

      This configuration will create Solr container and make Solr admin panel being available through http://<project-name>.ddev.local:8983/solr/ from your host machine.

    2. Copy default Solr configuration from Ext:Solr to ddev

      Create the folder path .ddev/solr. Then copy the Solr configuration and cores configuration from typo3conf/ext/solr/Resources/Private/Solr to .ddev/solr.

      So you should have a structure under .ddev/solr:

      • /solr.xml
      • /cores/
      • /configsets/

    3. Configure TYPO3 to access Solr

      You can do it using TypoScript:

      plugin.tx_solr {
 solr {
   host = solr
   port = 8983
   path = /solr/core_en/
 }
}