InstallingHiveEC2

Workshop EC2 Instance

HIVE EC2 Instance

Install Tomcat 6

Use yum to install the standard Tomcat distribution:

• sudo yum install tomcat6
• (Optional) sudo yum install tomcat6-webapps
• (Optional) sudo yum install tomcat6-admin-webapps

Start Tomcat

• sudo service tomcat6 start

Open port 8080:

• Access your AWS account
  • Select Security Groups > quick-start-1
  • Add HTTP > TCP > 8080 > 8080 > 0.0.0.0/0

Confirm that the instance is running:

• http://your-ec2-instance.amazonaws.com:8080

Stop Tomcat

• sudo service tomcat6 stop

Install HIVE-web

Download and install the HIVE-web application:

• sudo wget http://hive-mrc.googlecode.com/files/hiveweb-1.0.war
• cd /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps
• Remove the existing ROOT webapp, if present
• mkdir ROOT
• cd ROOT
• unzip path/to/hive-web-1.0.war

Install HIVE-web Data

Download the sample HIVE index data:

• sudo mkdir /usr/local/hive
• cd /usr/local/
• sudo wget http://hive-mrc.googlecode.com/files/hive-agrovoc-sample.zip
• sudo unzip hive-agrovoc-sample.zip

Data directory must be ownded by tomcat user:

• chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/hive

Configure HIVE

Modify the default HIVE configuration:

• cd /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/conf
• vi hive.properties
  • Comment out all vocabularies except agrovoc}}}
  • Change dummy to kea
• vi agrovoc.properties
  • Change paths to /usr/local/hive/hive-data

Start Tomcat

• sudo service tomcat6 start
• tail -f catalina.out