Websolr won´t work? "401" Status: Authorization Required [#1956636]

I´ve just installed Websolr and tested the connection, and works. But nothing gets indexed. I´ve got a drupal 7 site, and when I click the configuration files tab, I get this error:

"401" Status: Authorization Required: Authorization Required<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Error</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<BODY><H1>401 Unauthorised.</H1></BODY>
</HTML>

My logs don´t show anything.
What can I do?

Thanks!

Comments

Comment #1

mkalkbrenner

German

🇩🇪

commented 3 April 2013 at 20:50

Priority:

Critical

» Minor

Seems like the connect requires basic authentication. Try to add your credentials to the Solr server URL:
https://user:password@www.example.com/

Comment #2

Rob Sears-1 commented 4 April 2013 at 21:14

This is a known issue with the way the apachesolr module interacts with websolr. There is a temporary fix available and we're working to push out a better long term solution shortly.

Comment #3

nz commented 4 April 2013 at 22:10

Websolr cofounder here. I'd love to get some feedback from one of the module developers so I can better understand what's going on in this particular case from the module's end.

On our end, we're limiting the access to stats.jsp due to a general preference to avoid exposing system level statistics in our shared clusters. And stats.jsp has quite a lot to share about the server that it's running on.

It looks like the module is somewhat tolerant of an empty response here, it's just the flat-out 401 that is causing an error message. We're considering sending back a 200 with a more or less empty XML response in it to get past this. Does that sound like a reasonable workaround on our end?

Alternatively, could the conditionals around this stats check be loosened up a bit? Or perhaps instead defer to /admin/luke to determine some of the more basic index stats, like number of documents and the size of the index?

Feedback welcome :)

—Nick