3.3. 3. Deploy Hue with an HA Cluster

If you are going to use Hue with an HA Cluster, make the following changes to /etc/hue/conf/hue.ini:

  1. Install the Hadoop HttpFS component on the Hue server.

    For RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux:

    yum install hadoop-httpfs

    For SLES:

    yum install hadoop-httpfs
  2. Modify /etc/hadoop-httpfs/conf/httpfs-env.sh to add the JDK path. In the file, ensure that JAVA_HOME is set:

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.7.0_67
  3. Configure the HttpFS service script for use by setting up the symlink in /etc/init.d:

    > ln -s /usr/hdp/{HDP2.2.x version number}/etc/rc.d/init.d/hadoop-httpfs
                  /etc/init.d/hadoop-httpfs

    For example, {HDP2.2.x version number} could be 2.2.0.0-2041.

  4. Modify /etc/hadoop-httpfs/conf/httpfs-site.xml to configure HttpFS to talk to the cluster, by confirming that the following properties are correct:

    <property>
         <name>httpfs.proxyuser.hue.hosts</name>
         <value>*</value>
    </property>
    
    <property>
         <name>httpfs.proxyuser.hue.groups</name>
         <value>*</value>
    </property>
  5. Start the HttpFS service.

    service hadoop-httpfs start 
  6. Modify the core-site.xml file. On the NameNodes and all the DataNodes, add the following properties to the $HADOOP_CONF_DIR /core-site.xml file, where $HADOOP_CONF_DIR is the directory for storing the Hadoop configuration files. For example, /etc/hadoop/conf.

    <property>
         <name>hadoop.proxyuser.httpfs.groups</name>
         <value>*</value>
    </property>
    
    <property>
         <name>hadoop.proxyuser.httpfs.hosts</name>
         <value>*</value>
    </property>
  7. In the hue.ini file, under the [hadoop][[hdfs_clusters]][[[default]]] subsection, use the following variables to configure the cluster:

    PropertyDescriptionExample

    fs_defaultfs

    NameNode URL using the logical name for the new name service. For reference, this is the dfs.nameservices property in hdfs-site.xml in your Hadoop configuration.

    hdfs://mycluster

    webhdfs_url

    URL to the HttpFS server.

    http://c6401.apache.org:14000/ webhdfs/v1/

  8. Restart Hue for the changes to take effect.

    service hue restart