diff --git a/conf/3.x/solrconfig.xml b/conf/3.x/solrconfig.xml
index b5e5627..081435a 100644
--- a/conf/3.x/solrconfig.xml
+++ b/conf/3.x/solrconfig.xml
@@ -1031,19 +1031,19 @@
        this is just a slave and remove  the <lst name="slave"> section
        if this is just a master.
     -->
-  <!--
      <requestHandler name="/replication" class="solr.ReplicationHandler" >
        <lst name="master">
+      <str name="enable">${enable.master:false}</str>
          <str name="replicateAfter">commit</str>
          <str name="replicateAfter">startup</str>
-         <str name="confFiles">schema.xml,stopwords.txt</str>
+      <str name="confFiles">${conf_files}</str>
        </lst>
        <lst name="slave">
-         <str name="masterUrl">http://localhost:8983/solr/replication</str>
-         <str name="pollInterval">00:00:60</str>
+     <str name="enable">${enable.slave:false}</str>
+     <str name="masterUrl">${master_core_url}/replication</str>
+     <str name="pollInterval">${poll_time:00:00:60}</str>
        </lst>
      </requestHandler>
-    -->
 
   <!-- Search Components
 
diff --git a/conf/3.x/solrcore.properties b/conf/3.x/solrcore.properties
index e69de29..5d22f51 100644
--- a/conf/3.x/solrcore.properties
+++ b/conf/3.x/solrcore.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#solrcore.properties for this specific core
+enable.master=true
+enable.slave=false
+poll_time=00:00:60
+master_core_url=http://localhost:8983/solr
+conf_files=schema.xml,mapping-ISOLatin1Accent.txt,protwords.txt,stopwords.txt,synonyms.txt,elevate.xml