Create and Secure the Gateway Directories

Installing Knox Gateway with the platform-specific installers creates the following directories:

knox-X.X.X.X.X.X.X-XXXX -- the $gateway directory.

For example, D:/hdp/knox-0.4.0.2.1.2.0-1557 The directory contains the following files:

Table 2.1. Apache Service Gateway Directores

Directory/Filename	Description
conf/topologies	Contains global gateway configuration files.
bin	Contains the executable shell scripts, batch files, and JARs for clients and servers.
deployments	Contains cluster topology descriptor files that define Hadoop clusers.
lib	Contains the JARs for all the components that make up the gateway.
dep	Contains the JARs for all of the component upon which the gateway depends.
ext	A directory where user-supplied extensions JARs can be placed to extends the gateway functionality.
samples	Contains a number of samples that can be used to explore the functionality of the gateway.
templates	Contains default configuration files that can be copied and customized.
README	Provides basic informaiton about the Apache Knox Gateway.
ISSUES	Describes significant known issues.
CHANGES	Enumerates the changes between releases.
LICENSE	Documents the license under which this software is provided.
NOTICE	Documents required attribution notices for included dependencies.
DISCLAIMER	Documents that this release is from a project undergoing incubaiton at Apache.

SystemDrive/hadoop/logs knox
This contains the output files from the Knox Gateway.

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