: I had the same issue some time back. I think the problem is that you need : to create solr/conf and solr/data under the tomcat root, not inside : "webapps".
did you really get the same exception becuase tomcat couldn't find your config directory?.... 2006-05-15 10:57:45 StandardContext[/solr]Servlet /solr threw load() exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet.init() for servlet SolrServer threw exception at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1085) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:876) ... ----- Root Cause ----- java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrServlet.init(SolrServlet.java:59) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:261) ... ...if so that's really bad, i could have sworn Yonik made the code throw good error messages about missing config files a while back, this looks more like a problme of not being able to find the SolrCore class itself (which should be in a jar included in the war file) -Hoss