diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index c96f13b1d51..72977e6ba7e 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-4806: Shard splitting does not abort if WaitForState times out (shalin)
 
+* SOLR-4807: The zkcli script now works with log4j. The zkcli.bat script
+  was broken on Windows in 4.3.0, now it works. (Shawn Heisey)
+
 Other Changes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/example/cloud-scripts/log4j.properties b/solr/example/cloud-scripts/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c5815839762
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/example/cloud-scripts/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#  Logging level
+log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stderr
+
+# log to stderr
+log4j.appender.stderr = org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stderr.Target = System.err
+log4j.appender.stderr.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stderr.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p - %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}; %C; %m\n
diff --git a/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.bat b/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.bat
index 5857a3cf959..8232a726cac 100644
--- a/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.bat
+++ b/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.bat
@@ -8,5 +8,4 @@ REM  Find location of this script
 set SDIR=%~dp0
 if "%SDIR:~-1%"=="\" set SDIR=%SDIR:~0,-1%
 
-     
-"%JVM%" -classpath "%SDIR%\..\solr-webapp\webapp\WEB-INF\lib\*;%SDIR%\..\lib\ext" org.apache.solr.cloud.ZkCLI %*
+"%JVM%" -Dlog4j.configuration=file:%SDIR%\log4j.properties -classpath "%SDIR%\..\solr-webapp\webapp\WEB-INF\lib\*;%SDIR%\..\lib\ext\*" org.apache.solr.cloud.ZkCLI %*
diff --git a/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.sh b/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.sh
index 1a8f47723d7..ad68ef470b2 100644
--- a/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.sh
+++ b/solr/example/cloud-scripts/zkcli.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,5 @@ JVM="java"
 
 sdir="`dirname \"$0\"`"
 
-
-$JVM  -classpath "$sdir/../solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/*:$sdir/../lib/ext/*" org.apache.solr.cloud.ZkCLI ${1+"$@"}
+$JVM -Dlog4j.configuration=file:$sdir/log4j.properties -classpath "$sdir/../solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/*:$sdir/../lib/ext/*" org.apache.solr.cloud.ZkCLI ${1+"$@"}