I've trying to install Sitecore, getting error: Missing source parameter

Question

I am trying to install Sitecore 9 update 2 on Azure. I am getting this error:

Package deployment failed ARM-MSDeploy Deploy Failed: 'Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentClientServerException: Missing source parameter 'Search Provider' (Sitecore Search Provider). This must be set for successful synchronization

In the nested/application.json it has the following var/param defined.

"variables": {
              "searchProvider": "[if(empty(parameters('solrConnectionString')), 'azure', 'solr')]",
              ...

below that section has:

"setParameters": {
              "Search Provider": "[variables('searchProvider')]",
              ...

I found that someone had an answer for this type of issue for a previous version of Sitecore 8.2. In the Deployment Scripts section on this page: https://github.com/HedgehogDevelopment/AzureDeployTemplates/blob/master/Blog%20Posts.md But it doesn't look like my version 9.0.2 has the same file structure.

They said they got the fix from Bas Lijten but when I went to his contact page http://blog.baslijten.com/contact it's broken. :) (Murphy's Law)

So if anyone can offer any help I would really appreciate it.

Answer 1

In case you are going to use Solr for sitecore, you have to pass a value to "solrConnectionString" property from azuredeploy.parameters.json file.

Add new entry into parameters json file, then pass your SolrConnectionString value from Powershell script by adding into Parameters variable.

"solrConnectionString": { "value": "" }