Cannot start Hive Web UI - hadoop

Question

I am facing a problem to start the Hive web UI. Although the hive-hwi-0.11.0.war file did exist under /usr/local/hive-0.11.0/lib/, the same error message always appeared when I tried to start HWI:
...FATAL hwi.HWIServer: HWI WAR file not found at /usr/local/hive-0.11.0/usr/local/hive-0.11.0/lib/hive-hwi-0.11.0.war
It seemed that the $HIVE_HOME path was repeated twice when the .war file was being searched regardless how I set the value for hive.hwi.war.file.
Values that I have tried:
setup 1: ${HIVE_HOME}/lib/hive-hwi-0.11.0.war
setup 2: /usr/local/hive-0.11.0/lib/hive-hwi-0.11.0.war
setup 3: lib/hive-hwi-0.11.0.war
BTW, I set up all the hive configurations in $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-site.xml. Anyone has a solution for this issue? Thanks!
Below is my hive-site.xml:
<configuration>
<property>
<name>hive.cli.print.current.db</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.cli.print.header</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
<value>jdbc:mysql://client2/metastore</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
<value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
<description>MySQL JDBC driver class</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name>
<value>/user/hive/warehouse</value>
<description>location of default database for the warehouse</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name>
<value>hive</value>
<description>user name for connecting to mysql server </description>
</property>
<property>
<name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
<value>hadoop</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.schema.verification</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.server2.servermode</name>
<value>thrift</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>datanucleus.autoCreateSchema</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>datanucleus.fixedDatastore</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name>
<value>master1</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.metastore.uris</name>
<value>thrift://client2:9083</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.listen.host</name>
<value>10.19.209.100</value>
<description>This is the host address the Hive Web Interface will listen on</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.listen.port</name>
<value>9999</value>
<description>This is the port the Hive Web Interface will listen on</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.war.file</name>
<value>/usr/local/hive-0.11.0/lib/hive-hwi-0.11.0.war</value>
<description>This is the WAR file with the jsp content for Hive Web Interface</description>
</property>
</configuration>

Answer 1

It appears that you're setting $HIVE_HOME and then passing the full path in the hive-site.xml resulting in the incorrect path that you see in your error output.
Try changing the hive-site.xml file by just passing the lib location to append to the already set $HIVE_HOME path variable as follows:
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.war.file</name>
<value>/lib/hive-hwi-0.11.0.war</value>
<description>This is the WAR file with the jsp content for Hive Web Interface</description>
</property>
Then restart Hive and try the WebUI again.

Answer 2

Just to add to #apesa's answer, you might need to add two more properties along with what #apesa mentioned.
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.listen.host</name>
<value>0.0.0.0</value>
<description>This is the host address the Hive Web Interface will listen on</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hive.hwi.listen.port</name>
<value>9999</value>
<description>This is the port the Hive Web Interface will listen on</description>
</property>
hive.hwi.listen.host and hive.hwi.listen.port are optional only if the things are working with the default values.
Hope this helps...!!!