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Asked: 2026-06-02T02:38:03+00:00

For one or another reason, recently my Django Haystack Solr application stopped working. I’m

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For one or another reason, recently my Django Haystack Solr application stopped working. I’m using Haystack 1.2.7, and this is the error when trying to make a Solr query:

Failed to query Solr using ‘(name_auto:test) AND (django_ct:cities.city)’: [Errno 111] Connection refused

The obvious answer would be that my HAYSTACK_SOLR_URL is wrong, or that Solr is not running. I checked both these possibilities, and Solr is running, as it always has been, on the same address as the one specified in HAYSTACK_SOLR_URL. I can open it in a web browser, and even make queries on the web interface.

HAYSTACK_SITECONF = 'project.search_sites'
HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE = 'solr'
HAYSTACK_SOLR_URL = 'http://localhost:8080/solr'

So could there be another reason that Solr is refusing connections? How can I check? How do I fix it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem seems to have been caused by a recent system update that updated Jetty, the HTTP server I’m using to run Solr. It was refusing connections, because its settings file only allowed certain users. So I edited /etc/default/jetty to contain this line:

    JETTY_HOST=0.0.0.0

    So it now accepts all incoming connections, solving the problem. You can also specify the specific connection that Django will be using, to limit the possibility of abuse.

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