Looking for config in ./conf by default perhaps wasn't the best decision, since that path is used by many app servers for their own config.
In order to simplify colocating solr with the app server home (which many people seem to want to do) I think ./conf should be changed to ./solrconf. So a combined solr/appserver installation would look like: ./bin/ #this belongs to the servlet container ./conf/ #this belongs to the servlet container ./webapps/solr.war ./solrconf/ #was ./conf previously, schema.xml, solrconfig.xml go here ./solrbin/ #the solr scripts would go here ./data #this can stay the same Thoughts? -Yonik
