Hi Shawn, Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, slf4j has nothing to do with this. I removed the duplicate jars and the problem persists. Here are the updated logs.
Prashant 17-Feb-2017 19:05:24.618 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory /home/ubuntu/apache-tomcat-8.5.11/webapps/solr 17-Feb-2017 19:05:29.610 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time. 2017-02-17 19:05:30.226 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.s.SolrDispatchFilter ___ _ Welcome to Apache Solr™ version 6.4.1 2017-02-17 19:05:30.228 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.s.SolrDispatchFilter / __| ___| |_ _ Starting in standalone mode on port null 2017-02-17 19:05:30.229 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.s.SolrDispatchFilter \__ \/ _ \ | '_| Install dir: null 2017-02-17 19:05:30.574 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.s.SolrDispatchFilter |___/\___/_|_| Start time: 2017-02-17T19:05:30.231Z 2017-02-17 19:05:30.649 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.c.SolrResourceLoader Using JNDI solr.home: /home/ubuntu/solr_home/ 2017-02-17 19:05:30.656 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.c.SolrXmlConfig Loading container configuration from /home/ubuntu/solr_home/solr.xml 2017-02-17 19:05:32.271 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.u.UpdateShardHandler Creating UpdateShardHandler HTTP client with params: socketTimeout=600000&connTimeout=60000&retry=true 2017-02-17 19:05:32.619 INFO (localhost-startStop-1) [ ] o.a.s.c.CorePropertiesLocator Found 0 core definitions underneath /home/ubuntu/solr_home 17-Feb-2017 19:05:32.780 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory /home/ubuntu/apache-tomcat-8.5.11/webapps/solr has finished in 8,162 ms -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Running-Solr-6-3-on-Tomcat-Help-Please-tp4320874p4321007.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.