Here are my steps: 1) Download apache-solr-4.0.0-BETA
2) Untar into a directory 3) cp -r example example2 4) cp -r example exampleB 5) cp -r example example2B 6) cd example; java -Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/collection1/conf -Dcollection.configName=myconf -DzkRun -DnumShards=2 -jar start.jar 7) cd example2; java -Djetty.port=7574 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar 8) cd exampleB; java -Djetty.port=8900 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar 9) cd example2B; java -Djetty.port=7500 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar 10) cd example/exampledocs; java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/update -jar post.jar *.xml http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?q=*:*&wt=xml&fq=cat:%22electronics%22 14 results returned This is correct. Let's try a slightly more circuitous route by running through the solr tutorial first 1) Download apache-solr-4.0.0-BETA 2) Untar into a directory 3) cd example; java -jar start.jar 4) cd example/exampledocs; java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/update -jar post.jar *.xml 5) kill jetty server 6) cp -r example example2 7) cp -r example exampleB 8) cp -r example example2B 9) cd example; java -Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/collection1/conf -Dcollection.configName=myconf -DzkRun -DnumShards=2 -jar start.jar 10) cd example2; java -Djetty.port=7574 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar 11) cd exampleB; java -Djetty.port=8900 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar 12) cd example2B; java -Djetty.port=7500 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar 13) cd example/exampledocs; java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/update -jar post.jar *.xml With the same query as above, 22 results are returned. Looking at this, it is somewhat obvious that what is happening is that the index was copied over from the tutorial and was not cleaned up before running the cloud examples. Adding the debug=query parameter to the query URL produces the following: <lst name="debug"> <str name="rawquerystring">*:*</str> <str name="querystring">*:*</str> <str name="parsedquery">MatchAllDocsQuery(*:*)</str> <str name="parsedquery_toString">*:*</str> <str name="QParser">LuceneQParser</str> <arr name="filter_queries"> <str>cat:"electronics"</str> </arr> <arr name="parsed_filter_queries"> <str>cat:electronics</str> </arr> </lst> So, Erick's diagnoses is correct: pilot error. However, the straightforward path through the tutorial and on to solr cloud makes it easy to make this mistake. Maybe a small warning in the solr cloud page would help? Now, running a delete operations fixes things: cd example/exampledocs; java -Dcommit=false -Ddata=args -jar post.jar "<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>" causes the number of results to be zero. So, let's reload the data: java -Durl=http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/update -jar post.jar *.xml now the number of results for our query http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?q=*:*&wt=xml&fq=cat:"electronics<http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?q=*:*&wt=xml&fq=cat:%22electronics>" is back to the correct 14 results. Dave PS apologizes for hijacking the thread earlier.
