I've come across this problem before. My simple solution was to
regenerate new keys until I got one without a slash... ;)
-Jimmy
> I have Hadoop 0.17.1 and an AWS Secret Key that contains a slash ('/').
>
> With distcp, I found that using the URL format s3://ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
> did not work, even if I encoded the slash as "%2F". I got
> "org.jets3t.service.S3ServiceException: S3 HEAD request failed.
> ResponseCode=403, ResponseMessage=Forbidden"
>
> When I put the AWS Secret Key in hadoop-site.xml and wrote the URL as
> s3://BUCKET/ it worked.
>
> I have periods ('.') in my bucket name, that was not a problem.
>
> What's weird is that org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.Jets3tFileSystemStore
> uses java.net.URI, which should take take of unencoding the %2F.
>
> -Stuart
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Lincoln Ritter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So far, I've had no luck.
>>
>> Can anyone out there clarify the permissible characters/format for aws
>> keys and bucket names?
>>
>> I haven't looked at the code here, but it seems strange to me that the
>> same restrictions on host/port etc apply given that it's a totally
>> different system. I'd love to see exceptions thrown that are
>> particular to the protocol/subsystem being employed. The s3 'handler'
>> (or whatever, might be nice enough to check for format violations and
>> throw and appropriate exception, for instance. It might URL-encode
>> the secret key so that the user doesn't have to worry about this, or
>> throw an exception notifying the user of a bad format. Currently,
>> apparent problems with my s3 settings are throwing exceptions that
>> give no indication that the problem is actually with those settings.
>>
>> My mitigating strategy has been to change my configuration to use
>> "instance-local" storage (/mnt). I then copy the results out to s3
>> using 'distcp'. This is odd since distcp seems ok with my s3/aws
>> info.
>>
>> I'm still unclear as to the permissible characters in bucket names and
>> access keys. I gather '/' is bad in the secret key and that '_' is
>> bad for bucket names. Thusfar i have only been able to get buckets to
>> work in distcp that have only letters in their names, but I haven't
>> tested to extensively.
>>
>> For example, I'd love to use buckets like:
>> 'com.organization.hdfs.purpose'. This seems to fail. Using
>> 'comorganizationhdfspurpose' works but clearly that is less than
>> optimal.
>>
>> Like I say, I haven't dug into the source yet, but it is curious that
>> distcp seems to work (at least where s3 is the destination) and hadoop
>> fails when s3 is used as its storage.
>>
>> Anyone who has dealt with these issues, please post! It will help
>> make the project better.
>>
>> -lincoln
>>
>> --
>> lincolnritter.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:10 AM, slitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm having the exact same problem, any tip?
>>>
>>> slitz
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Lincoln Ritter
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to use S3 with Hadoop 0.17.0 on EC2. Using this style of
>>>> configuration:
>>>>
>>>> <property>
>>>> <name>fs.default.name</name>
>>>> <value>s3://$HDFS_BUCKET</value>
>>>> </property>
>>>>
>>>> <property>
>>>> <name>fs.s3.awsAccessKeyId</name>
>>>> <value>$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID</value>
>>>> </property>
>>>>
>>>> <property>
>>>> <name>fs.s3.awsSecretAccessKey</name>
>>>> <value>$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY</value>
>>>> </property>
>>>>
>>>> on startup of the cluster with the bucket having no non-alphabetic
>>>> characters, I get:
>>>>
>>>> 2008-07-01 16:10:49,171 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode:
>>>> java.lang.RuntimeException: Not a host:port pair: XXXXX
>>>> at
>>>> org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:121)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:121)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:178)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:164)
>>>> at
>>>> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:848)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:857)
>>>>
>>>> If I use this style of configuration:
>>>>
>>>> <property>
>>>> <name>fs.default.name</name>
>>>> <value>s3://$AWS_ACCESS_KEY:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</value>
>>>> </property>
>>>>
>>>> I get (where the all-caps portions are the actual values...):
>>>>
>>>> 2008-07-01 19:05:17,540 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode:
>>>> java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:
>>>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>>>> at
>>>> java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
>>>> at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:447)
>>>> at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:497)
>>>> at
>>>> org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:128)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:121)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:178)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:164)
>>>> at
>>>> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:848)
>>>> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:857)
>>>>
>>>> These exceptions are taken from the namenode log. The datanode logs
>>>> show the same exceptions.
>>>>
>>>> Other than the above configuration changes, the configuration is
>>>> identical to that generate by the hadoop image creation script found
>>>> in the 0.17.0 distribution.
>>>>
>>>> Can anybody point me in the right direction here?
>>>>
>>>> -lincoln
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> lincolnritter.com
>>>>
>>>
>>
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