Hi Vamsee,    Im getting the following error when I run the upload config command   solrctl instancedir --create collection1 $HOME/solr_configs   And after that I get error stating "Error: can't upload configuration". When checked the log file I get the following error   2013-12-27 19:46:10,261 INFO org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader: Updating cloud state from ZooKeeper... 2013-12-27 19:46:10,261 ERROR org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer: Exception in Overseer main queue loop java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must not end with / character at org.apache.zookeeper.common.PathUtils.validatePath(PathUtils.java:58) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.getChildren(ZooKeeper.java:1450) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient$6.execute(SolrZkClient.java:235) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient$6.execute(SolrZkClient.java:232) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkCmdExecutor.retryOperation(ZkCmdExecutor.java:65) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient.getChildren(SolrZkClient.java:232) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient.clean(SolrZkClient.java:618) at org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer$ClusterStateUpdater.removeCore(Overseer.java:642) at org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer$ClusterStateUpdater.processMessage(Overseer.java:182) at org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer$ClusterStateUpdater.run(Overseer.java:142) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) 2013-12-27 19:46:11,763 INFO org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader: Updating cloud state from ZooKeeper... 2013-12-27 19:46:11,764 ERROR org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer: Exception in Overseer main queue loop java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must not end with / character at org.apache.zookeeper.common.PathUtils.validatePath(PathUtils.java:58) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.getChildren(ZooKeeper.java:1450) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient$6.execute(SolrZkClient.java:235) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient$6.execute(SolrZkClient.java:232) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkCmdExecutor.retryOperation(ZkCmdExecutor.java:65) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient.getChildren(SolrZkClient.java:232) at org.apache.solr.common.cloud.SolrZkClient.clean(SolrZkClient.java:618) at org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer$ClusterStateUpdater.removeCore(Overseer.java:642) at org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer$ClusterStateUpdater.processMessage(Overseer.java:182) at org.apache.solr.cloud.Overseer$ClusterStateUpdater.run(Overseer.java:142) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)   Please help me how to proceed further. Thank you. ... View more

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