Apache Solr is a fast, open-source search solution. People are doing some very cool things with Solr. I personally have only begun to scratch the surface of what is possible with Solr, but have seen amazing returns with a relatively small investment (thanks entirely to Daniel Lindsley's excellent search framework, django-haystack). There are instructions for getting up and running with Solr + Jetty -- the purpose of this blog entry is to walk through setting up multi-core Solr with Apache Tomcat.

To get the benefit of Django 1.2's new CSRF protection, all POST forms will need a special token. Here is a quick command that runs through templates adding the token:

find . -type f -name "*.html" -exec sed -i \
's|\(<form[^>]*method="post"[^>]*>\)\({% csrf_token %}\)\?|\1{% csrf_token %}|g' \
{} \;