I'm having this same issue (versions and all). Was there ever a response to this question? I can't seem to find one. Thanks in advance!
>From divz80 <divya.god...@gmail.com> Subject Error while starting Solr on Websphere Date Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:13:07 GMT Hi, i'm attempting to setup Solr 4.2.0 on IBM Websphere 8.5. I've deployed the solr.war and when I try to access the admin page, I get this error. Error 503: Server is shutting down The log files has this error: [3/20/13 18:56:33:564 EDT] 00000061 HttpClientUti I org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpClientUtil createClient Creating new http client, config:maxConnectionsPerHost=20&maxConnections=10000&socketTimeout=0&connTimeout=0&retry=false [3/20/13 18:56:33:592 EDT] 00000061 SolrDispatchF E org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter init Could not start Solr. Check solr/home property and the logs [3/20/13 18:56:33:639 EDT] 00000061 SolrCore E org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log null:java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org/apache/http/conn/scheme/Scheme.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;ILorg/apache/http/conn/scheme/SchemeSocketFactory;)V I verified that the latest jar, httpclient-4.2.3.jar is in the lib folder, there are no older versions of the jar. is there any other configuration step I'm missing or a property I need to set?