It seems to me that the behavior of the Core admin action "CREATE" has changed when going from Solr 4.1 to 4.3.
With 4.1, I could re-configure an existing core (changing path/name to solrconfig.xml for example). In 4.3, I get an error message: SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error CREATEing SolrCore 'core-tex69b6iom1djrbzmlmg83-index2': Core with name 'core-tex69b6iom1djrbzmlmg83-index2' already exists. Is this change intended? André