How to specify schema.xml and solrconfig.xml in SolrCloud?

Question

I am learning SolrCloud. I plan to do a schema-full exercise. I don't know much about Solr. So I started with Solr single node(solr start). I created core (items), schema (defined schema.xml and bit changes in solrconfig.xml) and imported data and queried also till here everything fine. After that, I took backup of all Solr-6.5.0 folder. I replaced a fresh copy of Solr-6.5.0.

I run to start

cd C:\dev\solr-6.5.0
.\bin\solr -e cloud

Given all default ones except collection name as "items".

And after I check the complete solr-6.5.0 folder, but I am not able to identify where should I kept my schema.xml and solrconfig.xml files.

I imported items.csv file successfully. But it is schemaless. How can I configure schema.xml in SolrCloud?

Answer 1

When you're running in cloud / cluster mode, all configuration is kept inside Zookeeper. If you've not set up an external Zookeeper ensemble, Solr will use an embedded version inside each node.

You can either use the Schema API to add single fields to the managed schema, or use the bundled zkcli.sh tool to upload the configuration to Zookeeper.