Can't reindex Sunspot SOLR - Error - RSolr::Error::Http - 500 Internal Server Error

Question

Everytime i try to reindex using...

rake sunspot:solr:reindex

These error messages always show:

Error - R

Answer 1

Upgrade Rsolr gem to latest version, 1.0.10.pre1, that worked for me.

Now I was able to reindex my models, and everything seems fine, in production that is.

Answer 2

With reference to @professormeowingtons, you don't have to delete entire solr directory as you might not want to delete your solr configurations like schema.xml and solrconfig.xml. The reason you are getting error might be because of corrupted indexes, what you can do is delete 'solr/env' i.e. solr/development or/and solr/data/development and restart solr server.

 1. rake sunspot:solr:stop

 2. rm -rf solr/development (Delete your solr/development directory)

 3. rm -rf solr/data/development

 4. rake sunspot:solr:start

 5. rake sunspot:solr:reindex

If problem still persists, rollback your recent changes because you might have added some wrong configurations.

Answer 3

Check your sunspot server by localhost:8982 (depelopment). if you get same error like console. try again by localhost:8983 (production). for my case, port 8983 is work fine and I change sunspot config at rails/config/sunspot.yml to port :8983. and solved.

Answer 4

The solution:

1. rake sunspot:solr:stop
2. rm -rvf solr (Delete your /solr directory)
3. rake sunspot:solr:start
4. rake sunspot:solr:reindex

Enjoy

Answer 5

Based on the answer provided by @professormeowingtons, what worked for me in production is the following:

1. $ rake sunspot:solr:stop RAILS_ENV=production
2. $ rm -rvf solr # delete your /solr directory
3. $ sudo reboot # reboot the machine RAILS_ENV=production
4. $ rake sunspot:solr:start RAILS_ENV=production
5. $ rake sunspot:solr:reindex RAILS_ENV=production

Answer 6

For those of you that are using Websolr in Heroku production and getting this error when reindexing:

Remember that you have to upload your schema.xml manually in the Websolr admin GUI, under the "Advanced Configuration" tab when viewing your index. Here's the direct link: https://websolr.com/slices/<index_uri>/schema

You can get the <index_uri> from running heroku config and getting it from the last part of your WEBSOLR_URL that looks like this: http://index.websolr.com/solr/<index_uri>

I ran into this error because I mistakenly assumed that Websolr would just use the schema.xml that I committed to git and pushed to heroku together with all the other <appname>/solr/conf files.