[STORM-2949] Download Storm release link in 1.0.x and 1.1.1 points to github(source code) rather than the storm.apache.org link.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.1, 1.0.5
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Stig Rohde Døssing
• Reporter: Seema Joshi
• Created: 14/Feb/18 17:38
• Updated: 01/Jun/19 18:20
• Resolved: 01/Jun/19 18:20

Description

I am following the documentation to Setup a Storm cluster for 1.0.5 and I have some comments/ errors to point out.
 

• The documentation only exists for 1.0.4. Replacing 1.0.4 in the url with 1.0.5 gives a 404 error.
   
• The section to Download and extract a Storm release to Nimbus and worker machines provides a link to download Storm releases from GitHub. 

• The tar.gz download from github is 8.5MB and is labeled as "Source code (tar.gz)". This is confusing for a release download.
• Trying to run nimbus from the extracted folder gives the following error, which is consistent with the above labeling. 
• [vagrant@node1 storm-1.0.6]$ bin/storm nimbus

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The storm client can only be run from within a release. You appear to be trying to run the client from a checkout of Storm's source code.

 

You can download a Storm release at http://storm.apache.org/downloads.html

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This link is incorrect in documentation for v1.0.x and v1.1.x.
 My understanding is the documentation is pointing to the wrong link. This link should be updated to point to the releases from http://storm.apache.org/ as mentioned in the error message. I was able to setup the storm cluster using this download path.