As documented in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-118, Jetty's work file in /tmp gets purged in UNIX-y systems, which kills the Solr admin interface (404 error). Creating the work directory here (with a .gitignore inside to get around Git's hatred of empty directories) should resolve the issue.
Merge pull request #50 from bemosior/master

Jetty's work files in /tmp are purged in UNIX-y systems, crashing the Solr admin interface