This is the documentation for CDH 5.0.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Starting the HttpFS Server

After you have completed all of the required configuration steps, you can start HttpFS:

$ sudo service hadoop-httpfs start

If you see the message Server httpfs started!, status NORMAL in the httpfs.log log file, the system has started successfully.

Note:

By default, HttpFS server runs on port 14000 and its URL is http://<HTTPFS_HOSTNAME>:14000/webhdfs/v1.

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