Can someone help me point my cql shell to my apache database

Question

Can someone help me point my cql shell to my apache database instead of my localhost? I need to be able to change it with the cql shell at the cqlsh prompt. I have the address.

Answer 1

Give the DataStax CQLSH documentation a read. Basically, just add your IP address as a parameter on the cqlsh command like this:

$ bin/cqlsh 192.168.23.109

Although, if you installed Cassandra using apt-get (or another Linux package manager) you shouldn't need to preface cqlsh with bin/ like I did above.

If you are one of the unfortunate few who are trying to run Cassandra on Windows, then you'll need to modify the target of your cqlsh shortcut similar to this:

"C:\Program Files\DataStax Community\python\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\bin\cqlsh" 192.168.23.109

Note that the IP address is outside of the double quotes.