About Enhanced Search .

[Faust]

Hi. I would like to know more about Enhanced Search?

Is this an addon, if yes how it’s work and how this will help my forum ?
thanks.

 

[Ozzy47]

XenForo Enhanced Search is designed to give significantly better search performance and additional search options to your users. It is built to take advantage of elasticsearch, which is built on top of Lucene. This gives excellent performance, even with millions of pieces of content. Elasticsearch allows nearly infinite scalability and redundancy by silently allowing searches to be run across multiple servers. Additionally, you benefit from a very small stopword list and no minimum word length, allowing nearly any search to return meaningful results. Elasticsearch also provides support for returning results based on how relevant they are to your search. You can select relevancy ordering on the advanced search page.

 

[Faust]

That's means I have to buy any package from elastic search ? And does it really help ?

 

[Kirby]

Elastic Search core is open source, eg. you can usally just install it through your package manager (apt, yum, etc.)

 

[Faust]

Elastic Search core is open source, eg. you can usally just install it through your package manager (apt, yum, etc.)

So after installing Enhanced Search addon, do I need to install anything else ? Or to buy anything else?

 

[Paul B]

No.

Just purchase XFES, install it and elasticsearch and that's it.

 

[Kirby]

So after installing Enhanced Search addon, do I need to install anything else?

We don't know that - it's your server.

If you already have acccess to an elasticsearch instance chances that you don't need to do much except configure XFES to use it are pretty high.
If you don't have access to an elasticsearch instance you will have to get one, only you can answer the question if that does require installing additional software.

 

[Faust]

We don't know that - it's your server.

If you already have acccess to an elasticsearch instance chances that you don't need to do much except configure XFES to use it are pretty high.
If you don't have access to an elasticsearch instance you will have to get one, only you can answer the question if that does require installing additional software.

I will need to check this with my web hosting to see if my server has elasticsearch and I can install the addon ? As I’m a bit confused.

 

[AndyB]

Elasticsearch requires Java.

Install Java
Install Elasticsearch
Install Enhanced search

 

[Faust]

Elasticsearch requires Java.

Install Java
Install Elasticsearch
Install Enhanced search

It's worth the money or no? That's the question.

 

[Faust]

Elasticsearch requires Java.

Install Java
Install Elasticsearch
Install Enhanced search

Also where I need to install java and elastic search, is that on ftp server ? Can I do on sharing host ?

 

[AndyB]

Also where I need to install java and elastic search, is that on ftp server ? Can I do on sharing host ?

It's easiest to ask your web hosting tech support to install Java and ElasticSearch.

 

[dknife]

If you're on a shared server then 1) likely you don't need Enhanced Search, and 2) likely your host won't support it as ElasticSearch has significant requirements.

 

[Faust]

If you're on a shared server then 1) likely you don't need Enhanced Search, and 2) likely your host won't support it as ElasticSearch has significant requirements.

Thanks a lot then that’s saves me some money

 

[Sean Engle]

We're with Pair Networks in Pittsburgh, and are now planning to migrate to a new dedicated server in order to use ElastiSearch and Enhanced Search. Our users have been frustrated from trying to find things in our database and I am hopeful that this will really help clear things out. I'll post again once we migrate, install and configure.

//sse

 

[forumSolution]

i need enhanced search addon for v2.0.5 i don't want to upgrade xenforo so which version of enhanced search addon i should install

 

[forumSolution]

I think enhance search was released after 2.0 so there must be old version of ES that would be compatible with 2.05 @Chris D ??

 

[Paul B]

You can check the announcements forum to determine release dates and work out which one is compatible.

 

[forumSolution]

You can check the announcements forum to determine release dates and work out which one is compatible.

Can you send me link please?

 

[mjda]

Can you send me link please?

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Also, since Brogan replied, I'll summarize my original response.

I would expect the latest version of ES to work for you to be 2.0.1. After that, I'd expect the requirements to be XF 2.1+.