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  • Be aware: nodes with PHP code and Drupal search index

    We finally decided to go to Apache Solr as our search solution. Basic installation and configuration went well out of the box (both solr engine and the Drupal module). The only thing left was waiting on the index to fill. Indexing is done on a cron run. Solr relies on Drupal's code Search engine, for hook_update_index invocation. So cron was set to be launched every 5 minutes instead of 1h to speed things up (650k+ nodes to index...). However something broke... Drupal logs started showing ...

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