1) the email list you want to be using is solr-user@lucene, not general@lucene
2) there is a big differnece between "solrconfig.xml" (which controls in general how solr works for managing a "SolrCore"); and the config files for DIH (which can be used to tell Solr where/how to fetch data to index) typically called data-config.xml (but you can name them anything you want). what you have described below is a data config file for DIH, if you are trying to use it as a solrconfig.xml file you aren't going to get very far. I suggest you take a gandar at the example config set for using DIH with a database... https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/example/example-DIH/solr/ https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/example/example-DIH/solr/db/conf/ https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/example/example-DIH/solr/db/conf/solrconfig.xml?view=markup https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/branches/branch_4x/solr/example/example-DIH/solr/db/conf/db-data-config.xml?view=log ...and keep them in mind while reviewing the DIH docs... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler -Hoss
