Articles from 2020

Setting Up Apache Solr to Work With Drupal 7 on Lando

A few out of date articles are online on Apache Solr working with Drupal on Lando. Google et al will give you a few close recipes for Drupal 8 but have some errors. The sequence below is tweaked for Drupal 7 - pretty similar approach for Drupal 8, although you can use a newer version of Solr with D8/9.

You need to alter .lando.yml to following:

Focus on the content

I've been writing a few reports and a lot of documentation recently, and have gone from the ubiquitous Microsoft Word to using iaWriter. No more farting about with page numbers and positioning images: I've focussed on the content and not the appearance, and have been far more productive.