Solr unable to reindex due to undefined field type

I've inhereted a rails app that uses Solr, which is new to me. All I want to do for now is to get the site running locally. I've installed solar, but when I try to get it running on the app, I have problems. I can run

rake sunspot:solr:start

without getting any errors, but when I try to reindex everything, like this:

rake sunspot:solr:reindex

I get the following error:

Execute sunspot:reindex
rake aborted!
Solr Response: undefined field type

I gather from this post that it's because of the schema.xml file. And that I have to copy that file.

I've got a schema.xml in my app's root directory and I've got another in the example directory in /usr/local/Cellar/solr/3.6.1/libexec/. When I did the rake

rake sunspot:solr:start

command, schema.xml was copied into my app's solr directory. Is there more copying that needs happen? I'm not really sure how to fix this issue.

Solution

Put schema.xml in conf directory, under your Solr root.