Ok got it The problem was very simple, thanks to post i just have to comment the following line in solrconfig.xml <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:./solr/data}</dataDir>
and that seems to do the trick Thanks guys -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/solr-on-third-party-hosting-account-throws-java-lang-RuntimeException-Cannot-create-directory-usr-loa-tp2204009p2207265.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.