Can't reindex with sunspot / solr in rails app - Error: Severe errors in solr configuration

Question

Ok, so I have a simple rails application and now i\'m trying to implement sunspot for search capabilities. However, after I\'ve generated the config file with rails g sunspot_ra

Answer 1

it happened to me occasionally.. in my case it was solr (not sunspot) issue

try to go to

http://localhost:8982/solr/admin

or http://localhost:8983/solr/admin

or http://[your.domain]:8983/solr/admin

(depending on what environment you use)

to see what error you have under solr web server

i saw the java error message and fixed it with just deleting index directory and restarting solr

and it began to behave as expected

hope it helped