diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 1ba8799a597..53bb4409aa5 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-3956: Fixed group.facet=true to work with negative facet.limit
   (Chris van der Merwe, hossman)
+  
+* SOLR-4650: copyField doesn't work with source globs that don't match any
+  explicit or dynamic fields.  This regression was introduced in Solr 4.2.
+  (Daniel Collins, Steve Rowe)
 
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java
index 6a5547f7ba9..cbeea49505e 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java
@@ -740,8 +740,21 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
     
     boolean sourceIsDynamicFieldReference = false;
     boolean sourceIsExplicitFieldGlob = false;
-    
-    if (null == sourceSchemaField && isValidFieldGlob(source)) {
+
+
+    final String invalidGlobMessage = "is an invalid glob: either it contains more than one asterisk,"
+                                    + " or the asterisk occurs neither at the start nor at the end.";
+    final boolean sourceIsGlob = isValidFieldGlob(source);
+    if (source.contains("*") && ! sourceIsGlob) {
+      String msg = "copyField source :'" + source + "' " + invalidGlobMessage;
+      throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, msg);
+    }
+    if (dest.contains("*") && ! isValidFieldGlob(dest)) {
+      String msg = "copyField dest :'" + dest + "' " + invalidGlobMessage;
+      throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, msg);
+    }
+
+    if (null == sourceSchemaField && sourceIsGlob) {
       Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(source.replace("*", ".*")); // glob->regex
       for (String field : fields.keySet()) {
         if (pattern.matcher(field).matches()) {
@@ -778,19 +791,19 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
         }
       }
     }
-    if (null == sourceSchemaField && ! sourceIsDynamicFieldReference && ! sourceIsExplicitFieldGlob) {
-      String msg = "copyField source :'" + source + "' doesn't match any explicit field or dynamicField.";
+    if (null == sourceSchemaField && ! sourceIsGlob && ! sourceIsDynamicFieldReference) {
+      String msg = "copyField source :'" + source + "' is not a glob and doesn't match any explicit field or dynamicField.";
       throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, msg);
     }
     if (null == destSchemaField) {
       String msg = "copyField dest :'" + dest + "' is not an explicit field and doesn't match a dynamicField.";
       throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, msg);
     }
-    if (sourceIsDynamicFieldReference || sourceIsExplicitFieldGlob) {
-      if (null != destDynamicField) { // source: dynamic field ref or explicit field glob; dest: dynamic field ref
+    if (sourceIsDynamicFieldReference || sourceIsGlob) {
+      if (null != destDynamicField) { // source: glob or no-asterisk dynamic field ref; dest: dynamic field ref
         registerDynamicCopyField(new DynamicCopy(source, destDynamicField, maxChars, sourceDynamicBase, destDynamicBase));
         incrementCopyFieldTargetCount(destSchemaField);
-      } else {                        // source: dynamic field reference; dest: explicit field
+      } else {                        // source: glob or no-asterisk dynamic field ref; dest: explicit field
         destDynamicField = new DynamicField(destSchemaField);
         registerDynamicCopyField(new DynamicCopy(source, destDynamicField, maxChars, sourceDynamicBase, null));
         incrementCopyFieldTargetCount(destSchemaField);
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5b32376751c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<schema name="test" version="1.5">
+  <types>
+    <fieldtype name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true"/>
+  </types>
+  <fields>
+    <field name="text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+  </fields>
+
+  <!-- This should cause an exception, since the copyField dest contains an asterisk at a position
+       that is neither the start or the end.
+  -->
+  <copyField source="text" dest="misplaced_*_asterisk"/>
+</schema>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ddc9f4dc685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<schema name="test" version="1.5">
+  <types>
+    <fieldtype name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true"/>
+  </types>
+  <fields>
+    <field name="text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+  </fields>
+
+  <!-- This should cause an exception, since the copyField source contains an asterisk at a position
+       that is neither the start or the end. 
+  -->
+  <copyField source="misplaced_*_asterisk" dest="text"/>
+</schema>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fb3ddbe5c41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<schema name="test" version="1.5">
+  <types>
+    <fieldtype name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true"/>
+  </types>
+  <fields>
+    <field name="text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+  </fields>
+
+  <!-- This should cause an exception, since the copyField dest contains more than one asterisk -->
+  <copyField source="text" dest="*too_many_asterisks*"/>
+</schema>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b3ca6ae3096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<schema name="test" version="1.5">
+  <types>
+    <fieldtype name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true"/>
+  </types>
+  <fields>
+    <field name="text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+  </fields>
+
+  <!-- This should cause an exception, since the copyField source contains more than one asterisk -->
+  <copyField source="*too_many_asterisks*" dest="text"/>
+</schema>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-non-glob-copyfield-source-matching-nothing-should-fail-test.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-non-glob-copyfield-source-matching-nothing-should-fail-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..86e80a4555e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/bad-schema-non-glob-copyfield-source-matching-nothing-should-fail-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<schema name="test" version="1.5">
+  <types>
+    <fieldtype name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true"/>
+  </types>
+
+
+  <fields>
+    <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true"/>
+    <field name="text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+    <dynamicField name="*_s"  type="string"  indexed="true"  stored="true"/>
+  </fields>
+
+
+  <!-- This should cause an exception, since the copyField source is not a glob 
+       and doesn't match any explicit or dynamic field 
+  -->
+  <copyField source="matches_nothing" dest="text"/>
+</schema>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema-copyfield-test.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema-copyfield-test.xml
index eff2acb737c..6c45681d215 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema-copyfield-test.xml
+++ b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema-copyfield-test.xml
@@ -466,7 +466,10 @@
    <copyField source="sku*" dest="*_s"/>
    <copyField source="sku*" dest="*_dest_sub_s"/>
    <copyField source="sku*" dest="dest_sub_no_ast_s"/>
-     
+
+   <!-- test source glob that doesn't match any explicit or dynamic field -->
+   <copyField source="testing123_*" dest="text"/>
+  
  <!-- Similarity is the scoring routine for each document vs a query.
       A custom similarity may be specified here, but the default is fine
       for most applications.
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/BadCopyFieldTest.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/BadCopyFieldTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..01711434f5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/BadCopyFieldTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.solr.schema;
+
+import org.apache.solr.SolrTestCaseJ4;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * SOLR-4650: copyField source with no asterisk should trigger an error if it doesn't match an explicit or dynamic field 
+ */
+public class BadCopyFieldTest extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
+ 
+  @Test
+  public void testNonGlobCopyFieldSourceMatchingNothingShouldFail() {
+    try {
+      initCore("solrconfig.xml","bad-schema-non-glob-copyfield-source-matching-nothing-should-fail-test.xml");
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      assertEquals
+          ("copyField source :'matches_nothing' is not a glob and doesn't match any explicit field or dynamicField.", 
+           e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testMultipleAsteriskCopyFieldSourceShouldFail() {
+    try {
+      initCore("solrconfig.xml","bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml");
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      assertEquals
+          ("copyField source :'*too_many_asterisks*' is an invalid glob: either it contains more than one asterisk,"
+          +" or the asterisk occurs neither at the start nor at the end.",
+           e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testMisplacedAsteriskCopyFieldSourceShouldFail() {
+    try {
+      initCore("solrconfig.xml","bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-source-should-fail-test.xml");
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      assertEquals
+          ("copyField source :'misplaced_*_asterisk' is an invalid glob: either it contains more than one asterisk,"
+          +" or the asterisk occurs neither at the start nor at the end.",
+           e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+
+  public void testMultipleAsteriskCopyFieldDestShouldFail() {
+    try {
+      initCore("solrconfig.xml","bad-schema-multiple-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml");
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      assertEquals
+          ("copyField dest :'*too_many_asterisks*' is an invalid glob: either it contains more than one asterisk,"
+          +" or the asterisk occurs neither at the start nor at the end.",
+           e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testMisplacedAsteriskCopyFieldDestShouldFail() {
+    try {
+      initCore("solrconfig.xml","bad-schema-misplaced-asterisk-copyfield-dest-should-fail-test.xml");
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      assertEquals
+          ("copyField dest :'misplaced_*_asterisk' is an invalid glob: either it contains more than one asterisk,"
+          +" or the asterisk occurs neither at the start nor at the end.",
+           e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/CopyFieldTest.java b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/CopyFieldTest.java
index f4a28994a69..796b89ae919 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/CopyFieldTest.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/CopyFieldTest.java
@@ -222,4 +222,28 @@ public class CopyFieldTest extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
     assertQ("sku2 copied to dest_sub_no_ast_s (*_s subset pattern no asterisk)", req
         ,"//*[@numFound='1']");
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSourceGlobMatchesNoDynamicOrExplicitField()
+  {
+    // SOLR-4650: copyField source globs should not have to match an explicit or dynamic field 
+    SolrCore core = h.getCore();
+    IndexSchema schema = core.getSchema();
+
+    assertNull("'testing123_*' should not be (or match) a dynamic or explicit field", schema.getFieldOrNull("testing123_*"));
+
+    assertTrue("schema should contain dynamic field '*_s'", schema.getDynamicPattern("*_s").equals("*_s"));
+
+    assertU(adoc("id", "A5", "sku1", "10-1839ACX-93", "testing123_s", "AAM46"));
+    assertU(commit());
+
+    Map<String,String> args = new HashMap<String, String>();
+    args.put( CommonParams.Q, "text:AAM46" );
+    args.put( "indent", "true" );
+    SolrQueryRequest req = new LocalSolrQueryRequest( core, new MapSolrParams( args) );
+    assertQ("sku2 copied to text", req
+        ,"//*[@numFound='1']"
+        ,"//result/doc[1]/str[@name='id'][.='A5']"
+    );
+ }
 }