400 Bad Request: unknown field 'type'

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I've set up Solr 3.6.2 on Tomcat as described here.

Using the sunspot-rails gem and the embedded solr server I have no problems, but on my staging server I'm getting the response:

message ERROR: [doc=Foo 20] unknown field 'type'

description The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.

The request data looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<add>
  <doc>
    <field name="id">Foo 20</field>
    <field name="type">Foo</field>
    <field name="type">ActiveRecord::Base</field>
    <field name="class_name">Foo</field>
    <field name="name">test</field>
  </doc>
</add>

What's causing this? Is there some configuration that should be set? (I'm expecting something that allows for the type name to be used regardless of whether or not such a column exists.)

Hey There is already a solution for this problem -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13340859/cant-reindex-sunspot-solr-error-rsolrerrorhttp-500-internal-server-er — Snm Maurya, Aug 04 '16 at 12:36

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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It turns out that the sunspot-solr gem expects a slightly different schema.xml than the default that is bundled with solr.

I replaced the file with the one that the gem uses (from here) and it works fine now. This answer explains what the schema.xml file is.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Feb 05 '13 at 05:43

where did you replace it? I am copying my schema generated in development to production server, `solr_dir/example/solr`. From example folder I run `java -jar start.jar` – sites May 07 '13 at 05:41
Thank you! The schema.xml file that needs to be replaced lives in `//conf/schema.xml` – Matt Darby Nov 05 '13 at 20:16
And don't forget to **restart** Solr **after altering** `schema.xml` ! – Paul T. Rawkeen Apr 16 '15 at 09:13

400 Bad Request: unknown field 'type'

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