[SOLR-6778] Dead end UX when following README

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Labels: documentation examples usability
• Assignee: Timothy Potter
• Reporter: Alexandre Rafalovitch
• Created: 22/Nov/14 19:54
• Updated: 23/Feb/15 08:02
• Resolved: 08/Dec/14 19:44

Description

After 'downloading' (building) Solr 5 distribution, the README says:

To start Solr for the first time after installation, simply do:

bin/solr start -f

That will bring Solr server up, but there is no longer a collection1, so we get no cores message, clicking on which brings up an "Add new core" dialogue.

Which - of course - does not actually allow us to create a new core but will just complain bitterly that one does not exist on the file system. And the server will throw a scary stack exception.

We have a catch-22 here. So, either the README needs to go into run an example sequence or ???

Issue Links

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