Hi You could try this
Instead of example/, use the server/ folder (it has Jetty in it) Start Solr using bin/solr start script instead of java -jar start.jar … Leave your solrconfig and schema as is to keep back-compat with 4.x. You may need to remove use of 3.x classes that were deprecated in 4.x https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Major+Changes+from+Solr+4+to+Solr+5 -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > 18. nov. 2015 kl. 10.10 skrev Daniel Miller <dmil...@amfes.com>: > > Hi! > > I'm a very inexperienced user with Solr. I've been using Solr to provide > indexes for my Dovecot IMAP server. Using version 3.x, and later 4.x, I have > been able to do so without too much of a challenge. However, version 5.x has > certainly changed quite a bit and I'm very uncertain how to proceed. > > I currently have a working 4.10.3 installation, using the "example" server > provided with the Solr distribution package, and a schema.xml optimized for > Dovecot. I haven't found anything on migrating from 4 to 5 - at least > anything I actually understood. Can you point me in the right direction? > > -- > Daniel