I’ll be publishing documentation on here as well as Github which will show you how to set up an Apache Solr instance, crawl then index a website with Apache Nutch and finally integrating those results to the front-end with AJAX Solr.
For now, here’s a list of resources which have proven to be helpful thus far:
In regards to my post on Stackoverflow, my resolution to this problem was to update search.js and check the window.location object:
//Old code - from reuters.js example
Manager.store.addByValue('q', '*:*');
//Custom query by end-user for my search.js file
var userQuery = window.location.search.replace( "?query=", "" );
Manager.store.addByValue('q', userQuery);
In regards to my post on Stackoverflow, I pointed my crawl and index to the location of my collection. In this case:
$ bin/nutch crawl urls -solr http://localhost:8983/solr/rockies -depth 1 -topN 5
$ bin/nutch solrindex http://localhost:8983/solr/rockies crawl/crawldb -linkdb crawl/linkdb crawl/segments/*
Additionally, I updated the -depth to 1 (specifies how deep to go after the link is defined. In this case 1 link from main page) and -topN to 5 (how many documents will be retrieved from each level).