HTTP ERROR: 404 missing core name in path with solr

Question

I am new to Solr, after installing it in ubuntu 8.10, when I was trying exampledocs to index , as per this link, I got this error:

HTTP ERROR: 404 m

Answer 1

Hi I've got exactly this error when my solrconfig.xml was malformed (missing closing tag element ). It was for solr 3.5.0 Once I fixed the solrconfig the error went away.

Answer 2

If you just browse to http://localhost:8983/solr/ you will see all cores listed (at least that did it for me).

Answer 3

In my case, it was happening due to a previous installation of Solr. So I had to delete my old core directory:

rm -rf /var/lib/solr/mycorename 

then recreate the directory with correct permissions:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/solr/mycorename/data
sudo chown -R jetty:jetty /var/lib/solr/mycorename/data

Answer 4

I'm not use SolrCores, but:

After installing new solr version, I got error "HTTP ERROR: 404 missing core name in path" And http://xxx:8080/solr-tour/admin/cores was empty. (If you don't use solrCore, 1 entry is here normally)

I must stop tomcat, delete his localfiles, and start again

/etc/init.d/tomcat5 stop
rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/work/Catalina/localhost/*
rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/*
rm -rf /usr/share/tomcat5/logs/*
/etc/init.d/tomcat5 start

Answer 5

In my case it was happening due to versioning.

Earlier I was using solr 1.4.1. It was running fine. Then I installed solr 3.6.1 and was getting this error.

A folder named solr is there in the tomcat/webapps directory where you generally put the solr.war file.

• Delete this solr folder
• Start tomcat

=> Problem is gone.

Answer 6

For me the problem was deeper, as I had not set up Solr correctly to begin with.

I followed the instructions here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrInstall

Basically, apart from just unzipping the solr.war war file to the webapps directory, you need to create a solr home directory (for which you can copy example/solr in the distribution you downloaded).

Then, as per happy-coding's suggestion, you can configure the web.xml file to point to this directory. Restart (if necessary), and voila!