Christian, I literally did this 10 minutes ago for an internal example. You need to issue a RELOAD for your index to open a new searcher using the updated files. Here's an example showing how I did it:
** Creating a new collection Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:SolrUpload greg.walters$ curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=test1&numShards=6&collection.configName=collection1&maxShardsPerNode=6"; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">5528</int></lst><lst name="success"><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">4524</int></lst><str name="core">test1_shard5_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">4536</int></lst><str name="core">test1_shard1_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">4537</int></lst><str name="core">test1_shard3_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">4561</int></lst><str name="core">test1_shard4_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">4564</int></lst><str name="core">test1_shard2_replica1</str></lst><lst><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">4566</int></lst><str name="core">test1_shard6_replica1</str></lst></lst> </response> ** Putting data into the new collection Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ rm -rf solr/test1_shard1_replica1/data/index/*; cp split/part-0/* solr/test1_shard1_replica1/data/index/ Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ rm -rf solr/test1_shard2_replica1/data/index/*; cp split/part-1/* solr/test1_shard2_replica1/data/index/ Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ rm -rf solr/test1_shard3_replica1/data/index/*; cp split/part-2/* solr/test1_shard3_replica1/data/index/ Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ rm -rf solr/test1_shard4_replica1/data/index/*; cp split/part-3/* solr/test1_shard4_replica1/data/index/ Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ rm -rf solr/test1_shard5_replica1/data/index/*; cp split/part-4/* solr/test1_shard5_replica1/data/index/ Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ rm -rf solr/test1_shard6_replica1/data/index/*; cp split/part-5/* solr/test1_shard6_replica1/data/index/ ** Opening a new searcher with the new data Greg-Walters-MacBook-Pro:example greg.walters$ curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=RELOAD&name=test1"; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <response> <lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">3154</int></lst><lst name="success"><lst name="10.10.19.156:8983_solr"><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1696</int></lst></lst><lst name="10.10.19.156:8983_solr"><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1981</int></lst></lst><lst name="10.10.19.156:8983_solr"><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1983</int></lst></lst><lst name="10.10.19.156:8983_solr"><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1980</int></lst></lst><lst name="10.10.19.156:8983_solr"><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1987</int></lst></lst><lst name="10.10.19.156:8983_solr"><lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">0</int><int name="QTime">1989</int></lst></lst></lst> </response> Thanks, Greg On Dec 13, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Christian Bongiorno <christian.bongio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone tried to take an index generated elsewhere and install it in a > core? I have done that and I can see all the documents if I do "q=*:*" but > I can't actually query any of the fields even though I added the field > names to schema > > I am kind of a rookie so forgive me if I come across as such. I have been > searching around for this scenario and haven't seen any discussion on it > > -- > Christian Bongiorno
