can't connect to solr server when rebuilding index for django haystack
I am getting the following error:
Failed to add documents to Solr: Failed to connect to server at 'http://example.com/:8983/solr/update/?commit=true', are you sure that URL is correct? Checking it in a browser might help: HTTPConnectionPool(host='example.com', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /:8983/solr/update/?commit=true (Caused by : [Errno 111] Connection refused)
I can hit the commit=true address which returns this xml: 
I can hit the solr admin with no problem: 
I have opened all ports in my security group especially 8983 and 80.
Here is my settings entry:
HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine',
'URL': 'http://example.com/:8983/solr',
'TIMEOUT': 60 * 5,
},
}
Why can't I connect to rebuild the index?
The problem was here:
'URL': 'http://example.com/:8983/solr',
It should be this:
'URL': 'http://example.com:8983/solr',