: More appropriate would be to use a commandline utility like 'curl' to : create the new cores. : : curl 'http://production.example.com:8080/solr/admin/cores?rest-of-request'
More specificly: HTTP is the only way to admin a Solr port while running. All of the existing scripts htat come with solr (commit, optimize, etc...) are just shell wrappers arround curl commands that hit the default URL for those operations. -Hoss