With Solr 5.2.0, I ran: bin/solr create -c foo This created solrconfig.xml in server/solr/foo/conf directory. Other configuration files such as synonyms.txt are found in this directory too.
But I don't see schema.xml. Why is schema.xml handled differently? I am guessing server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/schema.xml is used by the foo core because it knows about the "cat" field. Is the template files in sample_techproducts_configs considered standard? TK