I bet you did not push the configuration to Zookeeper before creating the collection. If you look in your admin UI, the Cloud link and the "tree" version, you'll find a "configsets" directory that'll show you what you _have_ put in ZK, and I'll bet you find nothing like a config set (containing schema.xml etc) named what you specified for someExistingCollection. It's not the _collection_ that should be existing, it should be the configset.
It's often a bit confusing because if the configName is not specified, the default is to look for a config set of the same name as the collection being created. Best, Erick On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Mike Thomsen <mikerthom...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
