Steps to reproduce Use a Linux machine. Build commit ea2c8ba of Solr as described in the section below. Build the films collection as described below. Start the server using the command ./bin/solr start -f -p 8983 -s /tmp/home Request the URL given in the bug description. Compiling the server git clone https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr cd lucene-solr git checkout ea2c8ba ant compile cd solr ant server Building the collection We followed Exercise 2 from the Solr Tutorial . The attached file ( home.zip ) gives the contents of folder /tmp/home that you will obtain by following the steps below: mkdir -p /tmp/home echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><solr></solr>' > /tmp/home/solr.xml In one terminal start a Solr instance in foreground: ./bin/solr start -f -p 8983 -s /tmp/home In another terminal, create a collection of movies, with no shards and no replication, and initialize it: bin/solr create -c films curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name":"name", "type":"text_general", "multiValued":false, "stored":true}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-copy-field" : {"source":"*","dest":"_text_"}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema ./bin/post -c films example/films/films.json