Hi Darshan, It looks like you are listing the instanceDir's name twice in the create collection command, it should be
$ solrctl --zk host:2181/solr --solr host:8983/solr/ collection --create Catalog_search_index -s 10 -c Catalog_search_index Without the extra ". Catalog_search_index" at the end. Also, because your new collection's name is the same as the instanceDir's, you could just omit that parameter and it should work ok. Try that and see if it works. Good luck, Gonzalo -----Original Message----- From: Darshan Pandya [mailto:darshanpan...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 12:02 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: newbie question hello, I am using solr cloud with cloudera. When I try to create a collection, it fails with the following error. Any hints / answers will be helpful. $ solrctl --zk host:2181/solr instancedir --list Catalog_search_index $ solrctl --zk shot:2181/solr --solr host:8983/solr/ collection --create Catalog_search_index -s 10 -c Catalog_search_index.Catalog_search_index Error: A call to SolrCloud WEB APIs failed: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: application/xml;charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:58:13 GMT <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <lst name="responseHeader"> <int name="status"> 0</int> <int name="QTime"> 1165</int> </lst> <lst name="failure"> <str> org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrServer$RemoteSolrException:Error CREATEing SolrCore 'Catalog_search_index_shard1_replica1': Unable to create core [Catalog_search_index_shard1_replica1] Caused by: Specified config does not exist in ZooKeeper:Catalog_search_index.dataCatalog_search_index</str> -- Sincerely, Darshan
