RE: Ghost Documents or Shards out of Sync

Hi, Thank you your replies - much appreciated! I'm afraid it's neither one... Let me add some background. A user triggers an operation which under the hood needs to update a single field. Atomic update fails with a message that one of the mandatory fields is missing (which is strange by itself).

Re: Authentication for all but selects

Thanks Craig! I got the following to work. { "authentication":{ "blockUnknown":false, "class":"solr.BasicAuthPlugin", "credentials":{"solr":"..."}}, "authorization":{ "class":"solr.RuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin", "user-role":{"solr":"admin"}, "permissions":[ {