data import command on page 149 does not complete

[pauljabernathy]

I followed the directions on the github main page to download the code, ran mvn package, and went to the bin directory and ran ./start-solr.sh solr-clustering &. So far so good.

But when I went to http://localhost:8983/solr/dataimport?command=full-import, but the data import could not complete. The text in the status message was "Indexing failed. Rolled back all changes." In the console, I found this error message:

SEVERE: Exception thrown while getting data
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://www.startribune.com/sports/index.rss2
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1626)
...

For whatever reason, the script seems unable to get to the url http://www.startribune.com/sports/index.rss2. However, I can get to the url from the browser window. Is there a known issue with getting to this page from the solr example?

I am trying to do Mahout clustering and have been getting errors when trying to cluster some other documents (the docs that came with solr 4.6.1) so now I am trying to follow the book's examples exactly so I could guarantee that the clustering process will run correctly.