Solrj cannot connect to zookeeper from Solr Cloud Example

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B.Mr.W. picture B.Mr.W. · Mar 8, 2016 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I started a Solrcloud by running the included example bin/solr -e cloud, and in that case, I managed to start up a three nodes Solr cloud and created a gettingstarted collection: 

http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=gettingstarted&numShards=3&replicationFactor=2&maxShardsPerNode=2&collection.configName=gettingstarted

I think it comes with a embedded zookeeper running on port 9983 because I saw this output when I started the cloud: 

...
Starting up Solr on port 7574 using command:
bin/solr start -cloud -p 7574 -s "example/cloud/node2/solr" -z localhost:9983
Waiting up to 30 seconds to see Solr running on port 7574 [/] 
...

However, when I tried to connect to the SolrCloud using SolrJ, it failed with the error message: 

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Cannot connect to cluster at localhost:9983/solr: cluster not found/not ready

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Can anyone help me understand what is going on here?

Answer

Binoy Dalal picture Binoy Dalal · Mar 9, 2016

The code fails because you are trying to point the CloudSolrServer to a znode that does not exist. Your zkhost is not configured with a /solr chroot. The configs seem to be stored at the root node.

So change the line 

String zkHostString = "localhost:9983/solr";

to 

String zkHostString = "localhost:9983";

and your code should work.

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