that explains it then, using 1.4.1 thanks for that Ron
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ephraim Ofir" <ephra...@icq.com> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 13 October, 2010 2:11:49 PM Subject: RE: multicore defaultCoreName not working Which version of solr are you using? I believe this is only available on trunk, not even on 1.4.1 (SOLR-1722). Also, watch out for SOLR-2127 bug, haven't gotten around to creating a patch yet... Ephraim Ofir -----Original Message----- From: Ron Chan [mailto:rc...@i-tao.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:20 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: multicore defaultCoreName not working Hello I have this in my solr.xml <solr persistent="true" sharedLib="lib"> <cores adminPath="/admin/cores" defaultCoreName="live"> <core name="live" instanceDir="core0" /> <core name="staging" instanceDir="core1" /> </cores> </solr> admin is working and the individual cores are working through http://localhost:8080/solr/live/select/?q=abc and http://localhost:8080/solr/staging/select/?q=abc returning the correct results from the right core however, I wanted to keep the existing single core URLs and thought that the defaultCoreName attribute does this i.e. http://localhost:8080/solr/select/?q=abc should give me the "live" core but it gives me "Missing core name in path" Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks Ron