How do I connect Apache Solr Search Integration to a Solr server that is protected by HTTP authentication?

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It appears that Tomcat needs HTTP authentication based on how it is configured. To me this seems like more of a Tomcat configuration question, but it also might be helpful to have a recipe for HTTP authentication with Apache Solr Search Integration Integration as well.

If you absolutely must have HTTP Authentication, you will have to set the "Authorization" header in the web request. This can be done by extending the DrupalApacheSolrService class and overriding the _makeServletRequest() method to add your header. You will then have to change the service class to your custom one either by setting the "apachesolr_service_class" variable to effect all environments or the "service_class" environment variable.

Just to spell it out further, your class could probably be something as simple as below. Note that I haven't validated the approach so it may need some work.

MyModuleSolrService extends DrupalApacheSolrService {

  protected function _makeHttpRequest($url, $method = 'GET', $headers = array(), $content = '', $timeout = FALSE) {
    $headers['Authorization'] = 'your-auth-string';
    parent::_makeHttpRequest($url, $method, $headers, $content, $timeout);
  }

}

Then you can set either the system variable or Apache Solr environment variable via drush.

// System variable approach
drush vset apachesolr_service_class MyModuleSolrService

// OR ...

// Apache Solr environment variable
drush solr-vset --id=`machine-name-of-env` service_class MyModuleSolrService

Some related topics are posted below:

• #377156: apachesolr doesn't work with Solr instances behind HTTP auth (basic)
• #512350: Solr with HTTP authentication

One additional thought, it might make sense to make this an option that can be configured through the GUI, similar to how Search API does it. There are a lot of steps required to do this, unless I am missing something obvious.

Hope this helps,
Chris

Thili360,

Haha. Cool! Much simpler.

Thanks for posting back,
Chris

If that's not in the docs, we should add it . I don't see anything here http://drupal.org/node/343467 nor in the README

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