Is there a Magento demo instance with the Magento Enterprise Solr search activated?
I was guessing http://enterprise-demo.magentocommerce.com/ might have activated this feature but did not find out if Solr is activated. In the admin backend, access to the system configuration is disallowed.
Best Answer
Objectively -
there is no real way to know.The Solr search integration is entirely via the back end and exposes very few features to the frontend on-site search that are different from the MySQL Fulltext variant. These two features are:Because both of these features have to be enabled separately, you could, in theory, drive your search and layered navigation, even your category pages from Solr, but have no tell-tale signs on the frontend.
However, subjectively, my gut feel is that it is enabled. My not-so-scientific reasons:
Update:
The default port for Solr is 8983 - a simple curl to this port returns:
Jetty is running on this box, and Solr is definitely installed. Curl to the root domain on 8983 reveals that
/solr
is the only context known to Jetty. The presence of Solr/Jetty on this box isn't conclusive proof, but I'll take is as a pretty good indicator that they're using Solr.