Hi Shawn, I'm also getting the HTTP Status 503 - Server is shutting down error when navigating to http://localhost:8080/solr-4.3.1/
I already copied the logging.properties file from C:\Dropbox\Databases\solr-4.3.1\example\etc to C:\Dropbox\Databases\solr-4.3.1\example\lib Here's my Tomcat console log: 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performanc e in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windo ws\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Li ve;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Windows\ system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShe ll\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;c:\msxsl;C:\Program Files (x86)\Window s Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;C:\Program File s (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110 \Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\Prog ram Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQ L Server\110\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL S erver\110\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\j re631\bin;. 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 283 ms 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.37 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor manager.xml 14-jul-2013 14:21:57 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR INFO: Deploying web application archive solr-4.3.1.war log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrD ispatchFilter). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more in fo. 14-jul-2013 14:21:58 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT 14-jul-2013 14:21:58 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 14-jul-2013 14:21:58 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009 14-jul-2013 14:21:58 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/55 config=null 14-jul-2013 14:21:58 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 719 ms -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/HTTP-Status-503-Server-is-shutting-down-tp4065958p4077879.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.