It seems that you have secured Solr so thoroughly that you cannot now run bin/solr status!
bin/solr has no arguments as yet for providing a username/password - as a mostly user like you I'm not sure of the roadmap. I think you should relax those restrictions a bit and try again. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Merlin Morgenstern < merlin.morgenst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have secured solr cloud via basic authentication. > > Now I am having difficulties creating cores and getting status information. > Solr keeps telling me that the request is unothorized. However, I have > access to the admin UI after login. > > How do I configure solr to use the basic authentication credentials? > > This is the error message: > > /opt/solr-5.3.0/bin/solr status > > Found 1 Solr nodes: > > Solr process 31114 running on port 8983 > > ERROR: Failed to get system information from http://localhost:8983/solr > due > to: org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException: Expected JSON response > from server but received: <html> > > <head> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> > > <title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title> > > </head> > > <body><h2>HTTP ERROR 401</h2> > > <p>Problem accessing /solr/admin/info/system. Reason: > > <pre> Unauthorized</pre></p><hr><i><small>Powered by > Jetty://</small></i><hr/> > > > </body> > > </html> >