Hello,

I've started looking into getting global search set up on my Totara site. I'm using Homestead Vagrant box on OSX. However, I'm getting an error on the "Manage global search" settings page that reads:
"The search engine is not available. Please contact your administrator."

I've been following the Moodle instructions on https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Global_search#How_to_install_Solr

I installed solr by doing "brew install solr"

It's running fine as you can see.

I ran the command "solr create -c totara" to create the index

That was created fine.

So I went back into my Totara site, Site Admin > Search > Solr and input the host, index name and port number

And then when I go to the Site Admin > Search > Manage global search page

I tried running the indexer through the cli (sudo php search/cli/indexer.php --force) but it just prints out the original error that I've been getting.

Summary of versions:

Hosted locally on my Mac OSX 10.13
Totara: 10.1
Solr: 6.6.2 (latest 6.x release, read there were issues with field types in v7 so avoided that)
PHP: 7.1

And solr support is set up on the php.ini

Had a frustrating afternoon searching around but can't find anything. The only issue I did find relating to this was to do with solr v7 as mentioned above, which is why I used v6 instead.