Getting SolrException "solrconfig editing is not enabled due to disable.configEdit " in DSE 6.8.34

Question

I am trying to edit the solrconfig.xml file in a Linux environment where DSE is installed. However, I have been unable to locate the file and have also attempted to edit it via the Config API. When attempting to do so, I receive the following message: "solrconfig editing is not enabled due to disable.configEdit." Additionally, I cannot find the .sh file for Solr.

I have tried the following command:

POST http://localhost:8983/solr/keyspace.mytable/config

But received this response:

{
    "responseHeader": {
        "status": 403,
        "QTime": 27
    },
    "error": {
        "metadata": [
            "error-class",
            "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException",
            "root-error-class",
            "org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"
        ],
        "msg": " solrconfig editing is not enabled due to disable.configEdit",
        "code": 403
    }
}

Answer 1

You can use dsetool get_core_config to get the solrconfig.xml file:

https://docs.datastax.com/en/dse/6.8/dse-admin/datastax_enterprise/tools/dsetool/dsetoolGet_core_config.html

You can also get it via cqlsh:

DESCRIBE PENDING SEARCH INDEX CONFIG on keyspace.tablename;

Answer 2

Access to perform certain administrative operations on the Solr UI including indexing and reloading cores have been disabled for security reasons in DataStax Enterprise (DSP-13530).

We recommend using dsetool to manage Search indexes. For example, to retrieve a copy of the Solr configuration for a core:

$ dsetool get_core_config ks.table

Manually edit the downloaded solrconfig.xml file then upload it and trigger a reindex at the same time using the reload_core command. For example:

$ dsetool reload_core ks.table \
    solrconfig=/path/to/solrconfig.xml \
    schema=/path/to/schema.xml \
    distributed=true \
    reindex=true \
    deleteAll=false

For details, see Managing search indexes with dsetool commands. Cheers!