cassui – Apache Cassandra GUI – Installation

cassui is a web based interface over Cassandra which runs on any java servlet container like Apache Tomcat or Jetty.
In this example, I’ll be using Jetty.

Step 1 – Install Jetty

Jetty Installation Istructions

Step 2 – Install cassui

# create download directory
mkdir -p ~/build/cassui
cd ~/build/cassui

# download war
wget http://cassui.googlecode.com/files/cassui-0.3-cassandra1.0.war

# copy to cassui.war
cp cassui-0.3-cassandra1.0.war cassui.war

# make jetty user the owner of cassui.wa
sudo chown jetty:jetty cassui.war

# move the war file to webapps
sudo mv cassui.war /opt/jetty/webapps/

# Using jetty
# http://localhost:8080/cassui
sudo /etc/init.d/jetty restart


# the application takes ages to load  1-3 minutes
# monitor jetty log files in case of error
ls -l /opt/jetty/logs

#Cassandra URL	127.0.0.1

References

1. Home: https://code.google.com/p/cassui/
2. Download: https://code.google.com/p/cassui/downloads/detail?name=cassui-0.3-cassandra1.0.war&can=2&q=