But that’s what I’ve done. starting again with nothing showing in the Solr Core Amin, I tried again creating a new index, called chimes, and didn’t put anything in Solr. in the plugin I entered the server details and gave it a path to use. At this point there’s nothing showing in server core admin and the only extra directory I’ve created is /var/solr/data/configsets. I click the button at the bottom and get all the instructions on what to do then click the button at the bottom again. This returns
Solr HTTP error: OK (404)
HTTP ERROR 404 Not Found
URI: /var/solr/data/chimes/admin/ping
STATUS: 404
MESSAGE: Not Found
SERVLET: –

So I check the path and they’re not there. So I create them and get “Inde3x already exists” message. So I delete everything and try again this time making sure the directories existed before I clicked the button the second time. I got exactly the same 404 message as before and clisking the button a 3td time brought up the “Index Exists” message.

I’m using this path for the index
/var/solr/data/chimes

And these are the log entries
15/12/2020, 09:59:21
WARN false
x:chimes
Suggester
Loading stored lookup data failed
15/12/2020, 09:59:21
ERROR false
x:chimes
SpellCheckComponent
Exception in reloading spell check index for spellchecker: suggest

Just in case there was a version problem I removed Solr 8.7 and installed 7.4. Same problem! 404 can’t find ../admin/ping even though its right there.
There are a couple of different log messages though
15/12/2020, 12:09:16
WARN false
x:chimes
Config
You should not use LATEST as luceneMatchVersion property: if you use this setting,​ and then Solr upgrades to a newer release of Lucene,​ sizable changes may happen. If precise back compatibility is important then you should instead explicitly specify an actual Lucene version.
15/12/2020, 12:09:16
WARN false
AND
15/12/2020, 12:09:16
WARN true
x:chimes
SolrResourceLoader
Solr loaded a deprecated plugin/analysis class [solr.LatLonType]. Please consult documentation how to replace it accordingly.

There are a few others on the plugin type

The binaries from solr-8.7.0.tgz

This is what I was doing.
Unfortunately an update (not sure if it was to my VM or Ubuntu) has left me unable to properly use the Solr interface. None of the links work. I suspect the VM software (Fusion on Mac) since the problem occurs in snapshots taken before the update.

Thanks very much. That seems to be working, at least in so far is it created the index. Now though there are a few other problems. Although the index seems to be loaded, according to tab zero, it may not be from looking at tab 2 heading.