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Installing Koha's Zebra Search Engine
It can be queried using complex search expressions such as AND and
OR operators
It allows for additional features on Koha such as search limits, and refining
searches that are otherwise not available
It has sophisticated features such as approximate matching, and spelling
correction
It can be queried by any Z39.50 or SRU /W client
Learn more about Zebra here:
http: / /www.indexdata.com /zebra /.
Documentation on Zebra is available here:
http: / /www.indexdata.com /zebra /doc /.
Koha's Zebra related components
Before we install and test Zebra with Koha, let us understand a couple of key
Zebra related components that we will use frequently as Koha administrators.
Zebrasry -the Zebra query and retrieval
server
This is a Zebra component that is responsible for serving results to search
requests coming from Koha's OPAC or staff client. Here are some key points
to note about zebrasrv:
For search to function, the
zebrasry process must be running on the
Koha server
The process can be started by using the zebrasry command from the
Linux shell
zebrasry
is usually run in the background as a service or a daemon
To make
zebrasry work with our Koha installation, we will need to
invoke the process by pointing it to use Koha's configuration file
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