Solr Query - HTTP error 404 undefined field text

Question

I\'ve got a Solr instance running on my Ubuntu machine using the default Jetty server that the Solr download comes with. Whenever I start Solr using

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In case there is no in the solrconfig.xml file, look for the /select handler.

Within that you would find something like this

text

That is the culprit. df means the default field and it, by default, and agreeably, quite stupidly, is set to a field called text which many might not have.

Remove it and replace it with whatever is to be your default search field.