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Just trying to delete all the documents, and did this:

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E

then committed:

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Ccommit/%3E

I get the response:

<lst name="responseHeader">
<int name="status">0</int>
<int name="QTime">17</int>
</lst>
</response>

But when I search I still get results back.

What did I do wrong?

Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩
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Blankman
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  • where is the solr log, I couldn't find it! I'm running on jetty. – Blankman Mar 02 '10 at 17:49
  • Never mind, if you have a response, there's no error. What's your client platform? If it's Java you could just use SolrJ, or is there any particular reason you're not using it? – Mauricio Scheffer Mar 02 '10 at 22:07
  • what docs do you get if you query `*:*` ? – Karussell Jun 05 '10 at 19:26
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    If anyone is wondering, here is the SOLR docs on how to do these kind of deletions from a URL: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages – Aaron D Aug 10 '10 at 17:11
  • For me this did not help, but be sure check the linked issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12057734/solr-cannot-delete-anything – Cedric Meury Sep 25 '12 at 15:02

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Not sure if it matters but you might encode the : too

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*%3A*%3C%2Fquery%3E%3C%2Fdelete%3E

Another thing to try is to use the POST method (the preferred way to call update):

curl http://localhost:8983/solr/update?commit=true -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>'
mlathe
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I got stung with this one recently as well. Just remember that if you have updateLog is configured in solrconfig.xml, but there is no version field in the schema.xml

see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3432

I Spent a good hour on this one!!!

Rob
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Put the commit=true parameter in you GET request:

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E&commit=true

Tim P
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Remember to clear the browser cache! I thought I was having the same problem, but it turned out that the browser had just cached the result and was returning the cached page. D'oh!

Pete
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In Lucene wiki :

it will still be found, because index changes are not visible until, and a new searcher is opened. To cause this to happen, send a commit command to Solr (post.jar does this for you by default)

Maybe you can POST a <commit/> message to Solr.

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http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>&commit=true
Tyler Liu
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Probably you are missing a forward slash (/) after update and before question mark.

Current query: 

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>&commit=true

Revised query: 

http://localhost:8983/solr/update/?stream.body=<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>&commit=true
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