1. U will need to set this in the hive-site.xml <property> <name>hive.hwi.war.file</name> <value>/path/to/lib/hive-hwi-0.9.0.war</value> <description>This sets the path to the HWI war file, relative to ${HIVE_HOME}. </description> </property>
2. Get this http://archive.apache.org/dist/hive/hive-0.9.0/hive-0.9.0.tar.gz 3. Tar xvf hive-0.9.0.tar.gz 4. hive-0.9.0/lib/hive-hwi-0.9.0.war From: Something Something <mailinglist...@gmail.com<mailto:mailinglist...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:24 PM To: "hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org>" <hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org>> Subject: Hive Web Interface I have installed Hive locally & I am able to run Hive queries etc. Now I would like to try out Hive Web Interface, but when I try to start the webserver I run into this: ./hive --service hwi 13/05/15 22:18:33 INFO hwi.HWIServer: HWI is starting up 13/05/15 22:18:33 WARN conf.HiveConf: hive-site.xml not found on CLASSPATH 13/05/15 22:18:34 FATAL hwi.HWIServer: HWI WAR file not found at <HIVEDIR>/lib/hive-hwi-0.9.0.war CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.