Install and configure Httpsfs hadoop service

Build HTTPFs package

Clone the Hadoop code

git clone https://github.com/apache/hadoop.git
cd hadoop/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/
mvn package -Pdist -DskipTests
cd target/
tar -cf hadoop-hdfs-httpfs-2.6.0.tar.gz hadoop-hdfs-httpfs-2.6.0

Go to server where you want to setup Https server

Extract the tar file

tar -xvf hadoop-hdfs-httpfs-2.6.0.tar.gz
cd hadoop-hdfs-httpfs-2.6.0

In your cluster manager ( e.g Ambari / Cloudera manager etc)

Make change to core-site.xml so that , httpfs user can do proxy

<property>
<name>hadoop.proxyuser.#HTTPFSUSER#.hosts</name>
<value>httpfs-host.foo.com</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hadoop.proxyuser.#HTTPFSUSER#.groups</name>
<value>*</value>
</property>

Change #HTTPFSUSER# to extact user who will be starting httpfs service.

Restart cluster services

Copy core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml from your cluster to /etc/hadoop directory

Start Httpfs

./sbin/httpfs.sh start

Check

curl -i "http://<HTTPFSHOSTNAME>:14000?user.name=YourHadoopusername&op=homedir"

Output should be

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{"homeDir":"http:\/\/<HTTPFS_HOST>:14000\/user\/YourHadoopusername"}