A Step before creation the schema, the config needs to be uploaded to the zoo keeper. You might want to upconfig
bin/solr zk upconfig -n <name for configset> -d <path to directory with configset> more details here... https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/using-zookeeper-to-manage-configuration-files.html Regards Ganesh On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 7:13 PM, THADC <timothy.clotworthy.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I created (or thought I was) a new config set by copying the directory > ~server/solr/configset/_default/* to a new configset: > ~/server/solr/configset/timConfig. I then added a couple of new indexes to > the managed-schema file. > > I then tried to create a new collection assigned to my new config set by > executing: > * > http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action= > CREATE&name=timCollection&numShards=2&replicationFactor= > 1&collection.configName=timConfig > * > > However, I got the following error: > > *responseHeader > status 400 > QTime 44 > Operation create caused exception: > "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException:org.apache.solr. > common.SolrException: > Can not find the specified config set: timConfig" > exception > msg "Can not find the specified config set: timConfig" > rspCode 400 > error > metadata > 0 "error-class" > 1 "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException" > 2 "root-error-class" > 3 "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException" > msg "Can not find the specified config set: timConfig" > code 400* > > grateful for any advice on what I am doing wrong. Thank you > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html >