Installing ftw.tika in Plone

I love being able to search in all the documents uploaded into plone. I keep on forgetting that this was an add-on and not natively provided. The latest add-on I tried to enable that feature was ftw.tika.

To install it, first download the tika.cfg file from their github page at https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika. Once that has been downloaded, modify your buildout.cfg with:


[buildout]

extends =
       ...
       tika.cfg

eggs =
       ...
       ftw.tika

zcml =
       ...
       ftw.tika
       ftw.tika-meta

parts =
       ...
       tika-server-download
       tika-server

[client1]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika


[client2]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika


[client3]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika

[client4]
...
zcml-additional += ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika


Once that is done, run buildout. Then you can start the tika server with "bin/tika-server". Then you can start your plone instance. After that make sure you login and enable the tika add-on in your "site-setup", "add-ons" page.

To allow the tika server to start automatically on Centos 7, create the file /etc/systemd/system/tika.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Tika server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /opt/plone/zeocluster/parts/tika-server-download/tika-server.jar -h 0.0.0.0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then enable the service with "systemctl enable tika".

Looks pretty nice. Now all office docs are searchable inside.

Looking back

I haven't actually "looked" at this blog for quite a while. I write to it, of course, but that's mostly as reminders for myself. But today I took it upon myself to at least change the template of the site. And wow... so much memories flooding back.

As I check back the links, even they have to change. There is no more foss.org.my, there is no more kaeru.my. Just memories of them now.

My first post was on Feb 9, 2008. Now it is August 21, 2016. That's a good 8 years later. Thanks to this blog I remember I left OSCC around July 28, 2009. Following kaeru to start off Inigo. That didn't last long for me. By April 2, 2010 I was already working at Logistic Consulting Asia. Doing reports in java for their internally developed system. And that stint lasted even shorter. By June 1, 2010 I was working at CIMB. And am still here till this day.

Even my tools have changed somewhat. I barely do any PHP programming nowadays. Mostly writing groovy in great grails framework. And python using the flask framework. And whenever I can, I write a little bit of java for android development. I've been meaning to get into iOS development but haven't found the time nor the motivation yet. Bought the books but that's as much as I have done so far.

Times have changed.