title: Solr - HTTP ERROR 500 accessing /solr/admin/. Reason: Severe errors in solr configuration
body: <p>Major warnings are as follows:</p>
  
  <p>Solr - HTTP ERROR 500  problem accessing /solr/admin/. Reason:      Severe errors in solr configuration.</p>
  
  <p>Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory: /home/~solr/apache-solr-3.6.0/example/solr/./data/index</p>
  
  <p>java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Cannot create directory: /home/~solr/apache-solr-3.6.0/example/solr/./data/index</p>
  
  <p>org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: No cores were created, please check the logs for errors</p>
  
  <p>Trying to get over the first hurdle with Solr, working through the tutorial, and getting the door slammed in my face right off the bat.  Anyone have a suggestion?  Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>btw, I am using java jre1.6.0_31</p>