diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/minimal/conf/schema.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/minimal/conf/schema.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<!--
+ 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="minimal" version="1.1">
+ <types>
+  <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField"/>
+ </types>
+ <fields>
+   <dynamicField name="*" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" />
+ </fields>
+</schema>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/minimal/conf/solrconfig.xml b/solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/minimal/conf/solrconfig.xml
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+<?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.
+-->
+
+<!-- Minimal solrconfig.xml with /select, /admin and /update only -->
+
+<config>
+
+  <dataDir>${solr.data.dir:}</dataDir>
+
+  <directoryFactory name="DirectoryFactory"
+                    class="${solr.directoryFactory:solr.NRTCachingDirectoryFactory}"/>
+
+  <luceneMatchVersion>${tests.luceneMatchVersion:LUCENE_CURRENT}</luceneMatchVersion>
+
+  <updateHandler class="solr.DirectUpdateHandler2">
+    <commitWithin>
+      <softCommit>${solr.commitwithin.softcommit:true}</softCommit>
+    </commitWithin>
+
+  </updateHandler>
+  <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
+    <lst name="defaults">
+      <str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
+      <str name="indent">true</str>
+      <str name="df">text</str>
+    </lst>
+
+  </requestHandler>
+
+  <requestHandler name="/admin/" class="org.apache.solr.handler.admin.AdminHandlers" />
+
+  <requestHandler name="/update" class="solr.UpdateRequestHandler"  />
+</config>
+