Content tests let you test alternative variants of your website's content to find out which pages, components, or combinations of components are the most effective with visitors. The content or components that you are comparing in a test should be designed to achieve the same goal. Content testing is not working properly with CMS mode only. In other words, if you are disabling the analytical function (xDB). First of all, let me list down the software versions that I used in this article Sitecore Experience Platform 8.1 rev. 160519 (8.1 Update-3) Solr 4.10.4 - recommended Solr version for Sitecore 8.1 To disable content testing you should patch one of the Sitecore settings called ContentTesting.AutomaticContentTesting.Enabled. You will need to set this value to false Moreover, you can find few exceptions on crawling log files 4352 12:15:39 WARN Could not compute value for ComputedIndexField: impact for indexable: sitecore://master/...
Solr is a great search engine that Sitecore recommends. Solr is highly reliable and scalable, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, centralized configuration and more. In this article, I will explain how to setup Solr master/slave index replication and configure Sitecore in order to use it. Note: I assume that Solr is in place and Sitecore basic configuration is implemented as explain in Sitecore documentation ( https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/81/setting_up_and_maintaining/search_and_indexing/walkthrough_setting_up_solr ) First of all, let me list down the list of software versions that I used in this article Sitecore Experience Platform 8.1 rev. 160519 (8.1 Update-3) Solr 4.10.4 - recommended Solr version for Sitecore 8.1 What is Solr Index Replication? Index Replication distributes complete copies of a master index to one or more slave servers. The master server continues to manage updates to the index. All...