I shared the errors already so many times (check this mailinling for "solr" in teh title)
Contrary to what you say, with SOlr 7.5 and Dovecot git, I had to remove the "managed-schema" to make solr respond a bit properly. It relies on schema.xml
In order to create the instance, no, it copies the default config in the dovecot instance.
I'm not a Solr expert by any means but I believe you are
incorrect.
As of Solr 5.x the managed-schema file is the primary method for configuration. The method I detailed previously for setting up a config helps automate creating new Solr instances - but as I stated you can either setup a Solr template and then create the instance from that or create an instance using the default template and then adjust it.
The part that you *must* do after creating from the default
template is stop the server, delete the entire
"<prefix>/solr/dovecot/data" folder, then install the
correct managed-schema file, then restart the server. The server
will not function with mismatched schema/data.
If you'll try that - explicitly "rm -rf <prefix>/solr/dovecot/data", copy the managed-schema file into the conf folder, and restart - things will either work or there's something else that needs correction.
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