How to get solr 5.0.0 quick start tutorial working on Fedora linux

As of today, the current version of Solr is 5.0.0, and the quick start guide is here:

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/quickstart.html

When running:

$ bin/solr start -e cloud -noprompt

If you are getting the following error message:

WARN  - 2015-03-06 16:02:05.519; org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI; Request to http://134.252.99.99:7574/solr/admin/collections?action=list failed due to: Connection timed out, sleeping for 5 seconds before re-trying the request ...

It's likely because your router or firewall is blocking connections to your own machine to port 7574 when using the IP address.

Here's a workaround:

Edit the /etc/hosts file and put in the following line:

134.252.99.99 localhost

(replace 134.252.99.99 with your IP address)

Your OS will know that 134.252.99.99 is localhost, and will bypass the router.

Now, when you go to http://localhost:8983/solr/#/~cloud you should see this diagram:

Note: 134.252.99.99 is not my IP address.  It's supposed to be a "dummy" IP address.  Apologies if that is your IP address.