Question

I’m new to Solr, and am having trouble getting my setup to work. I’m using Solr 3.5.0 running on Tomcat 7.0.23, on Windows 7 Professional. If I copy the single core example into my Solr home, it doesn’t work – I get 404 errors from Tomcat for both http://foo/solr/admin/ and http://foo/solr/collection1/admin/. I’ve tried to convert the multicore example (which works, probably because solrconfig.xml is a lot simpler) to use a single core by deleting the additional folder and changing solr.xml to this:

<solr persistent="false">
  <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" defaultCoreName="core0">
    <core name="core0" instanceDir="core0" />
  </cores>
</solr>

As I understand it, this should mean that I can access core0 using either http://localhost/solr/admin/ or http://localhost/solr/core0/admin/, but only the second URL works – the other just returns a 404 stating “missing core name in path”. I thought that defaultCoreName meant I didn’t need to specify the core name in the path. Should the defaultCoreName attribute work the way I expected it to, and if so please could you suggest areas of the configuration that I ought to have a look at in order to fix this?

Answer 1

The behaviour you expect is correct. http://localhost/solr/admin/ should give the same result as http://localhost/solr/core0/admin/

Not sure what the problem is, are you running Tomcat on port 80 instead of 8080?