diff --git a/samples/templates/nifi-1.0/xml_ingest.template.zip b/samples/templates/nifi-1.0/xml_ingest.template.zip
index 59f29f5ae8..904f80a2da 100644
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diff --git a/services/service-app/src/main/resources/application.properties b/services/service-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
index facbb06e6b..d251e3f5df 100644
--- a/services/service-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/services/service-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ config.spark.validateAndSplitRecords.extraJars=/usr/hdp/current/hive-webhcat/sha
 
 ## Specify to override the default HDFS locations for feed tables and multi-tenancy.
 
+# protocol for absolute hdfs url's (change to s3 or azure specific if needed)
+config.hdfs.protocol=hdfs
 # Root HDFS locations for new raw files
 config.hdfs.ingest.root=/etl
 # Root Archive location for new raw files