We're running SolrCloud 4.5.0. It's just a standard version of SolrCloud deployed in Tomcat, not something like the Cloudera distribution (I note that because I can't seem to find solrctl and other things referenced in the Cloudera tutorials).
I'm trying to create a new Solr collection like this: /admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=newCollection&numShards=1&collection.configName=someExistingCollection Then I found this error message in the logs: org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZooKeeperException: Specified config does not exist in ZooKeeper:newCollection2 at org.apache.solr.cloud.ZkController.readConfigName(ZkController.java:742) at org.apache.solr.core.ZkContainer.createFromZk(ZkContainer.java:244) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:557) at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CoreAdminHandler.handleCreateAction(CoreAdminHandler.java:465) at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CoreAdminHandler.handleRequestBody(CoreAdminHandler.java:146) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.handleAdminRequest(SolrDispatchFilter.java:655) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:246) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:195) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:421) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1074) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:314) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Mar 14, 2015 1:21:07 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error CREATEing SolrCore 'newCollection2_shard1_replica1': Unable to create core: newCollection2_shard1_replica1 at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CoreAdminHandler.handleCreateAction(CoreAdminHandler.java:495) at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CoreAdminHandler.handleRequestBody(CoreAdminHandler.java:146) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.handleAdminRequest(SolrDispatchFilter.java:655) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:246) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:195) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:122) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:950) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:421) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1074) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:611) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:314) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Unable to create core: newCollection2_shard1_replica1 at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.recordAndThrow(CoreContainer.java:936) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:568) at org.apache.solr.handler.admin.CoreAdminHandler.handleCreateAction(CoreAdminHandler.java:465) ... 21 more Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZooKeeperException: Specified config does not exist in ZooKeeper:newCollection2 at org.apache.solr.cloud.ZkController.readConfigName(ZkController.java:742) at org.apache.solr.core.ZkContainer.createFromZk(ZkContainer.java:244) at org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer.create(CoreContainer.java:557) ... 22 more Can someone explain what's going on here? The documentation seems pretty straight forward about how to call the API to create a new collection. Is it just the Solr version I'm using being too old for the current wiki docs or am I using it incorrectly? My goal here is to create a process where we can easily programatically create new collections for users in a web application. Thanks, Mike