Can't reindex with sunspot / solr in rails app - Error: Severe errors in solr configuration

Question

Ok, so I have a simple rails application and now i\'m trying to implement sunspot for search capabilities. However, after I\'ve generated the config file with rails g sunspot_ra

Answer 1

I was having a very similar problem and solved it by

• stopping all running solr processes
• removing the solr folder
• turn off/restart the computer
• gem uninstall all related gems
• bundle install
• start solr
• reindex solr