I removed the string "collection1" from my solr.xml file in solr home and modified my solr.xml file as follows:
<cores adminPath="/admin/cores" defaultCoreName="foobar1" host="${host:}" hostPort="${jetty.port:}" zkClientTimeout="${zkClientTimeout:15000}"> <core name="foobarcorename" instanceDir="." /> </cores> Then I restarted Solr. However, I keep getting messages about "Can't find resource 'solrconfig.xml' in classpath or '/l/solrs/dev/solrs/4.0/1/collection1/conf/'" And the log messages show that Solr is trying to create the collection1 instance "Aug 23, 2012 12:06:02 PM org.apache.solr.core.CoreContainer create INFO: Creating SolrCore 'collection1' using instanceDir: /l/solrs/dev/solrs/4.0/3/collection1 Aug 23, 2012 12:06:02 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader <init>" I think somehow the previous solr.xml configuration is being stored on disk somewhere and loaded. Any clues? Tom