I currently have Solr 4.2.0 working in production (set up around 2012). I have set up a new development environment where I upgraded all packages (Django 1.8.10, PySolr 3.4.0, Haystack 2.4.1) and s...

I'm using django-haystack (v 2.3.1) with solr (v 5.0.0) and pysolr (v 3.0.0). I've been following the tutorial, and have set up similar myapp/search_indexes.py and search/indexes/myapp/mymodel_text...

TLDR; How does various boosting types work together in django, django-haystack and solr? I am having trouble getting the most obvious search results to appear first. If I search for caring for othe...

I downloaded a package (called pysolr 2.0.15) to my computer to be used with Haystack. The instructions asks me to add pysolr to my PYTHONPATH. What exactly does that mean? After extracting the py...