Connect ColdFusion 11 to Remote Solr

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I am having trouble "connecting" my stand-alone Solr server to my ColdFusion 11 Enterprise server. It seems that I have the basic Solr server information correct in the CFIDE Admin, but ColdFusion isn't listing any collections/cores which exist on the Solr server. Also, I cannot create new collections/cores using the ColdFusion admin gui.

In CFIDE Admin I have set the Solr server information as follows:

Solr Host Name: 172.xx.xxx.xx
Solr Home: /opt/bitnami/apache-solr/solr
Solr Admin Port: 8983
Solr Webapp: solr
Solr Buffer Limit: 40
User name: [blank]
Password: [blank]
Solr Connection: [ ] Use HTTPS connection (not checked)
Solr Admin HTTPS Port: 0 (not using HTTPS at this time)

Here is what I see in the CFIDE Admin when I try and create a new collection:

Unable to create collection test-collection. Unable to create Solr collection test-collection. An error occurred while creating the collection: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException. Check the Solr logs for more detail.

And this is what I see from the same action in the Solr logs:

CoreContainer
Error creating core [test-collection]: Could not load conf for core test-collection: Error loading solr config from /opt/bitnami/apache-solr/solr/test-collection/conf/solrconfig.xml

SolrCore
org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error CREATEing SolrCore 'test-collection': Unable to create core [test-collection] Caused by: Can't find resource 'solrconfig.xml' in classpath or '/opt/bitnami/apache-solr/solr/test-collection/conf'

I've searched for quite a while and haven't found anything that helps me connect ColdFusion 11 to a remote Solr server. I much appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you in advance.

Hi Matt, I don't think you can use CF to create a collection on a remote Solr server. Is your "standalone" Solr server also a CF server? You can always use Solr admin itself to create the new core. — David Faber
@David That may be true, but I think there's a bigger problem because I can't even see the existing collections in the Coldfusion admin. — Matt

Matt Matt · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-06T21:25:22

I contacted Adobe and (surprisingly) received some help. They said non-ColdFusion Solr servers are officially not supported by ColdFusion.

In the end we just installed the ColdFusion-included Solr server (by re-installing ColdFusion, of course).

Also, they said the Solr server included with ColdFusion is the 3.4.x release. The ColdFusion Stand-alone Solr server is the same version. We probably could have installed the CF stand-alone server, but opted for the local server for simplicity (after all the trouble we had gone through already).

As a side note, it would be possible to use a different Solr server with ColdFusion, but you'd have to manage that server independently from ColdFusion. You could then query the server using <cfhttp>.

Connect ColdFusion 11 to Remote Solr

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