I am trying to follow official document as well other resource available on the net but unable to run solr on my tomcat.
I am trying to install and run `solr-4.10.0` on tomcat. this is what I have done so far 1. Copy solr-4.10.0.war to tomcat web-app and renamed it to solr.war. 2. Created a folder in my `D` drive with name `solr-home`. 3. copied everything from `solr-4.10.0\example\solr` and pasted it in solr-home` folder. 4. Through Environment variable , under user variable, I set following path `solr.solr.home=D:\solr-home` Started tomcat server, it is starting without any error / exception, but when I try to hit following URL `http://localhost:8080/solr/`, I am getting following error `message {msg=SolrCore 'collection1' is not available due to init failure: Could not load conf for core collection1: Error loading solr config from solr/collection1\solrconfig.xml,trace=org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: SolrCore 'collection1' is not available due to init failure: Could not load conf for core collection1: Error loading solr config from solr/collection1\solrconfig.xml at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.getCore(CoreContainer.java:745) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:307) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:207) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:953) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1041) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:603) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Could not load conf for core collection1: Error loading solr config from solr/collection1\solrconfig.xml at org.apache.solr.core.ConfigSetService.getConfig(ConfigSetService.java:66) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:489) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$1.call(CoreContainer.java:255) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer$1.call(CoreContainer.java:249) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) ... 3 more Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error loading solr config from solr/collection1\solrconfig.xml at org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig.readFromResourceLoader(SolrConfig.java:148) at org.apache.solr.core.ConfigSetService.createSolrConfig(ConfigSetService.java:80) at org.apache.solr.core.ConfigSetService.getConfig(ConfigSetService.java:61) ... 7 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: Can't find resource 'solrconfig.xml' in classpath or 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\solr\collection1\conf' at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.openResource(SolrResourceLoader.java:362) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader.openConfig(SolrResourceLoader.java:308) at org.apache.solr.core.Config.<init>(Config.java:116) at org.apache.solr.core.Config.<init>(Config.java:86) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig.<init>(SolrConfig.java:161) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrConfig.readFromResourceLoader(SolrConfig.java:144) ... 9 more ,code=500}` I am not sure where I am doing wrong or is it so tricky to install `Solr`. -- With Regards Umesh Awasthi http://www.travellingrants.com/