Just wanted to close the loop here: Isabelle filed SOLR-14569 for this and eventually reported there that the problem seems specific to her custom configuration which specifies a seemingly innocuous <shardHandlerFactory> in solrconfig.xml.
See that jira for more detailed explanation (and hopefully a resolution coming soon). On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:01 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > > Please share your security.json file > > Jan Høydahl > > > 10. jun. 2020 kl. 21:53 skrev Isabelle Giguere > > <igigu...@opentext.com.invalid>: > > > > Hi; > > > > I'm using Solr 8.5.0. I have uploaded security.json to Zookeeper. I can > > log in the Solr Admin UI. I can create collections and aliases, and I can > > index documents in Solr. > > > > Collections : test1, test2 > > Alias: test (combines test1, test2) > > > > Indexed document "solr-word.pdf" in collection test1 > > > > Searching on a collection works: > > http://localhost:8983/solr/test1/select?q=*:*&wt=xml > > <result name="response" numFound="1" start="0"> > > > > But searching on an alias results in HTTP 401 > > http://localhost:8983/solr/test/select?q=*:*&wt=xml > > > > Error from server at null: Expected mime type application/octet-stream but > > got text/html. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" > > content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <title>Error 401 Authentication failed, > > Response code: 401</title> </head> <body><h2>HTTP ERROR 401 Authentication > > failed, Response code: 401</h2> <table> > > <tr><th>URI:</th><td>/solr/test1_shard1_replica_n1/select</td></tr> > > <tr><th>STATUS:</th><td>401</td></tr> > > <tr><th>MESSAGE:</th><td>Authentication failed, Response code: > > 401</td></tr> <tr><th>SERVLET:</th><td>default</td></tr> </table> </body> > > </html> > > > > Even if https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13510 is fixed in Solr > > 8.5.0, I did try to start Solr with -Dsolr.http1=true, and I set > > "forwardCredentials":true in security.json. > > > > Nothing works. I just cannot use aliases when Solr is secured. > > > > Can anyone confirm if this may be a configuration issue, or if this could > > possibly be a bug ? > > > > Thank you; > > > > Isabelle Giguère > > Computational Linguist & Java Developer > > Linguiste informaticienne & développeur java > > > >