- Download nifi-0.4.1-bin.tar.gz from
Apache NiFi Downloads and explode locally. Sometimes the
tarball doesn't work; in this case, use
nifi-0.4.1-bin.zip instead. (The version changes every few months;
adjust accordingly. Much of what you see Googling for help using NiFi
will for some time continue to be for 0.x until 1.x examples begin to
overwhelm. I personally just use the latest except that in production
for my company, work must lag a bit behind.)
- (Don't download the source and build it unless you need/want to...)
- Presuming you don't have anything else running on port 8080, there are no
settings to modify. If you do not wish to use this port to run NiFI,
modify nifi.web.http.port=8080 in
${NIFI_ROOT}/conf/nifi.properties accordingly.
- Start NiFi: ${NIFI_ROOT}/bin/nifi.sh start.
- Launch
http://localhost:8080/nifi/
in a browser. You'll see
- If there is trouble, check out
${NIFI_ROOT}/logs/nifi-bootstrap.log or, less likely,
${NIFI_ROOT}/logs/nifi-app.log.
- At this point, check out a tutorial on creating a simple flow.
Videos might be
a good place. There's also
a whole selection of starter videos for NiFi 0.x.
Update, February 2017: what's the real delta between 0.x and 1.x? Not too much
until you get down into gritty detail, something you won't do when just acquainting
yourself.
