Solr 5: Adding a new Core fails out of the box

Question

So I'm just playing around with Solr 5, but I tried to add a new Core through the Admin UI and the command line with:

bin/solr create -c new_core

But in both situations I get the following error:

new_core: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Could not load conf for core new_core: Error loading solr config from /Users/blah/lib/solr-5.3.0/server/solr/new_core/conf/solrconfig.xml

I started my Solr server using this:

bin/solr start

I'm following the docs here:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Running+Solr

So what's the fix? How was this supposed to work out of the box given I assume there must be some template that the Admin UI uses when creating new cores?

Answer 1

The error is coming because there is no new_core configured in your setup. Please perform the following steps:

mkdir /Users/blah/lib/solr-5.3.0/server/solr/core_name
echo "name=core_name" > /Users/blah/lib/solr-5.3.0/server/solr/core_name/core.properties
cp -r /Users/blah/lib/solr-5.3.0/server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf /Users/blah/lib/solr-5.3.0/server/solr/core_name/

Some important point to note:

1. core.properties and conf directory should be placed at same path.
2. conf directory will contain the schema.xml and solrconfig.xml files.