Hi Lewis, Thanks for your clarification. This is all new to me, so I am still trying to understand the various steps involved in the crawl function. I was able to execute individual commands like inject, generate, parse, and readdb. when trying to execute 'bin/nutch crawl' however i would get the nullPointerexception. After reading up a bit more, I see the 'crawl' function is deprecated in Nutch2 in favor of a java file located in 'bin/crawl' that executes each command in sequence. I am able to successfully crawl and Index using the command below in terminal:
/bin/apache-nutch-2.2.1/runtime/local$ bin/crawl urls 1 http://localhost:8983/solr/ 5 I know for some it might be obvious, but as a newbie it was pretty confusing trying to get this going when most sample tutorials on the net cover Nutch1.x specific requirements. perhaps more could be said about the 'crawl' deprecation on the official Nutch2 tutorial page? http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/Nutch2Tutorial -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Null-Pointer-Exception-trying-to-run-Nutch-tp4079866p4080174.html Sent from the Nutch - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

