update - ok - i was reading about replication here:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication and noticed comments in the solrconfig.xml file related to HTTP Basic Authentication and the usage of the following tags: <str name="httpBasicAuthUser">username</str> <str name="httpBasicAuthPassword">password</str> *Can i place these tags in the request handler to achieve an authentication scheme for the /admin page?* // snipped from the solrconfig.xml file <requestHandler name="/admin/" class="org.apache.solr.handler.admin.AdminHandlers"/> thanks for any help mark -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/authentication-for-solr-admin-page-tp3865665p3865747.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.