: it looks like the old releases have been thrown out of the download : servers, for example
This is standard practice for apache projects so that the mirror network doesn't have to store gigs and gigs of ancient files that most people don't care about. All historic apache releases are available from the apache archive... http://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html http://archive.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/ -Hoss