: SimplePostTool: FATAL: Connection error (is Solr running at http://localhost:8983/solr/update ?): java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: http://localhost:8983/solr/update : : Is there any way to let "Solr" to be more verbose than that ?
Solr outputs all errors using whatever default error page format your servlet container uses, it also logs all errors tothe servlet containers loging system. this specific error indicates that post.jar could not connect to Solr at all (hence the "FATAL: Connection error" and the hint that perhaps Solr isn't actually runing at the URL ypost.jar is trying to contact.) If you are using the example Jetty setup that comes with Solr, and you send a document that triggers a Solr error, post.jar will output something like this (in this specific error, the problem is that the document being posted is total giberesh, an not XML at all)... SimplePostTool: FATAL: Solr returned an error: ParseError_at_rowcol11_Message_only_whitespace_content_allowed_before_start_tag_and_not___javaxxmlstreamXMLStreamException_ParseError_at_rowcol11_Message_only_whitespace_content_allowed_before_start_tag_and_not___at_combeaxmlstreamMXParserparsePrologMXParserjava2044__at_combeaxmlstreamMXParsernextImplMXParserjava1947__at_combeaxmlstreamMXParsernextMXParserjava1333__at_orgapachesolrhandlerXmlUpdateRequestHandlerprocessUpdateXmlUpdateRequestHandlerjava148__at_orgapachesolrhandlerXmlUpdateRequestHandlerhandleRequestBodyXmlUpdateRequestHandlerjava123__at_orgapachesolrhandlerRequestHandlerBasehandleRequestRequestHandlerBasejava78__at_orgapachesolrcoreSolrCoreexecuteSolrCorejava807__at_orgapachesolrservletSolrDispatchFilterexecuteSolrDispatchFilterjava206__at_orgapachesolrservletSolrDispatchFilterdoFilterSolrDispatchFilterjava174__at_orgmortbayjettyservletServletHandler$CachedChaindoFilterServletHandlerjava1089__at_orgmortbayjettyservletServletHandlerhandleServletHandlerjava365__at_orgmortbayjettysecuritySecurityHandlerhandleSecurityHandlerjava216__at_orgmortbayjettyservletSessionHandlerhandleSessionHandlerjava181__at_orgmortbayjettyhandlerContextHandlerhandleContextHandlerjava712__at_orgmortbayjettywebappWebAppContexthandleWebAppContextjava405__at_orgmortbayjettyhandlerContextHandlerCollectionhandleContextHandlerCollectionjava211__at_orgmortbayjettyhandlerHandlerCollectionhandleHandlerCollectionjava114__at_orgmortbayjettyhandlerHandlerWrapperhandleHandlerWrapperjava139__at_orgmortbayjettyServerhandleServerjava285__at_orgmortbayjettyHttpConnectionhandleRequestHttpConnectionjava502__at_orgmortbayjettyHttpConnection$RequestHandlercontentHttpConnectionjava835__at_orgmortbayjettyHttpParserparseNextHttpParserjava641__at_orgmortbayjettyHttpParserparseAvailableHttpParserjava202__at_orgmortbayjettyHttpCo -Hoss
