XML : solr 5.3.1 verifying that schema.xml is loaded

I'm configuring solr with django-haystack and one of the steps of configuration is to generate schema.xml with the following command and then place the resulting file in solr config direcotory:

  $ python manage.py build_solr_schema    

Currently I'm having some issues indexing file content, and several possible fixes are pointing edits at schema.xml However, solar has schema.xml in several places:

  $ find . -name schema.xml    ./solr/solrj/src/test-files/solrj/solr/configsets/configset-2/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/solrj/src/test-files/solrj/solr/configsets/shared/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/solrj/src/test-files/solrj/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/solrj/src/test-files/solrj/solr/multicore/core0/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/solrj/src/test-files/solrj/solr/multicore/core1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/server/solr/configsets/basic_configs/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/example/example-DIH/solr/solr/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/example/example-DIH/solr/rss/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/example/example-DIH/solr/mail/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/example/example-DIH/solr/tika/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/example/example-DIH/solr/db/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/morphlines-core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/morphlines-core/src/test-files/solr/minimr/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/morphlines-core/src/test-files/solr/mrunit/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/morphlines-core/src/test-files/solr/solrcelltest/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/extraction/src/test-files/extraction/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/uima/src/test-files/uima/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/clustering/src/test-files/clustering/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/velocity/src/test-files/velocity/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/contrib/langid/src/test-files/langid/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/bad-mergepolicy/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/minimal/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/core/src/test-files/solr/configsets/configset-2/conf/schema.xml  ./solr/core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml    

I tried changing several of those files, but I'm getting no feedback whatsover.I deleted all of the files and solr works in the default configuration as if nothing happened.

I tried going to the following url to extract and verify the schema -- http://localhost:8983/solr/schema but that also didn't work.

I'm looking on the log files in solr/node1/logs and solr/node2/logs but they don't seem to bring up any errors or any information related to schema.xml

The documentation is very confusing as solr behaviour has changed in the major way between releases, which renders documentation rather contradictory.

Is there a proven, repeatable way for Solr 5.3.1 of checking loaded schema.xml configuration or a possibility of dumping said schema in a file to be examined?