Yes, this was the issue. I downloaded the .tar.gz, extracted the contents, put the jar file in /usr/tomcat6.0.20/solr/lib, and the dataimport page is now not showing any errors, nor is there any error shown in the logs.
Thank you! -----Original Message----- From: Shalin Shekhar Mangar [mailto:shalinman...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:01 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Data Import Handler On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mukerjee, Neiloy (Neil) < neil.muker...@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > Caused by: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Could not load driver: > com.mysql.jdbc.Driver > at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.createConnectionFactory(JdbcDataSource.java:111) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.JdbcDataSource.init(JdbcDataSource.java:61) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter.getDataSourceInstance(DataImporter.java:288) > ... 25 more > You have not put the JDBC driver in your class path. If you are using mysql, download the mysql jdbc driver and add it to the 'lib' directory inside your solr home directory. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.