[SOLR-6767] Improve user experience when starting Solr in standalone mode using scripts

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Component/s: Admin UI, scripts and tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anshum Gupta
• Created: 19/Nov/14 23:44
• Updated: 16/Feb/17 15:55
• Resolved: 09/Aug/16 14:15

Description

As of now, starting Solr in standalone mode using './solr start' starts up Solr without any core. Trying to create a core from coreadmin UI doesn't work and errors out (when using defaults).

Error CREATEing SolrCore 'new_core': Unable to create core [new_core] Caused by: Can't find resource 'solrconfig.xml' in classpath or '/lucene-solr/solr/server/solr/new_core/conf'

The only way to get it to work would be to use the /server/<configset> directory to be the instance directory and then, the core creation would create unwanted directories in there. The only way to clean that up being,

> rm -rf .. ; svn up # (if it's a repo check out). 

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-6703 Umbrella JIRA for improvements after restructuring directory layout.