Searching for “Atlanta, GA” was giving 0 results, despite there being several GAFilk items tagged “Atlanta, GA”. Turns out my schema.xml was a bit off. So, I fixed it on my local machine and rebooted Solr to reload the schema. It was glorious. I simultaneously fixed the related bug of creators not being searchable.
But then, when I uploaded the new configuration to my server, there was no change in behavior. I restarted Solr. Still no change. Tried restarting Solr in a different way. Didn’t start. Long story short, my production server stores its schema in a different folder than my local machine does. I copied the file over to the proper directory, restarted Solr the original way, and ta-da! Glorious, functional searches.
