I second Loren's opinion. I had used hwi before and now using HUE. If you are considering using HUE, here is the installation guide by Cloudera, http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hue/manual.html
Hope this helps, Chalcy -----Original Message----- From: Loren Siebert [mailto:lo...@siebert.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:17 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Hive Web UI 404 Not sure if you are interested in alternative solutions to HWI, but you might want to check out Beeswax in Hue (https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/HUE/Beeswax). On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:10 AM, <jcfol...@pureperfect.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to get the Hive Web UI running, but it 404s. Everything seems to > be configured correctly running: > > hive --service hwi > 11/10/05 11:02:43 INFO hwi.HWIServer: HWI is starting up > 11/10/05 11:02:43 INFO mortbay.log: Logging to > org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerAdapter(org.mortbay.log) via > org.mortbay.log.Slf4jLog > 11/10/05 11:02:43 INFO mortbay.log: jetty-6.1.26 > 11/10/05 11:02:43 INFO mortbay.log: Extract > /home/cfolsom/tools/servers/hive/current/lib/hive-hwi-0.7.0.war to > /tmp/Jetty_0_0_0_0_9999_hive.hwi.0.7.0.war__hwi__camk6k/webapp > 11/10/05 11:02:44 INFO mortbay.log: Started SocketConnector@0.0.0.0:9999 > > Jetty comes up at 9999, but gives 404's when trying to access the index > or anything else. From my understanding, this should work out of the box > as the only three properties required are: > > hive.hwi.listen.host > hive.hwi.listen.port > hive.hwi.war.file > > and the defaults should be fine. There doesn't seem to be a log file for > Jetty. What am I missing? > > Thanks, > > Chris >