[chef] Re: Re: Re: Deploying server under CentOS

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hello!

On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Albert Llop wrote:

> I amanged to have chef server working on CentOS up to 8.16 aswell, but 9.6 
> has just been completely impossible. I've managed to update it all, launch 
> all the services, but there's no way in hell I can get to log in to the 
> webui admin.
> 
> Will try to get an ubuntu virtual machine working to save me some hassle in 
> the future, and if I can't (or the boss doesn't approve, which could be :P) 
> will try Paul's tips! Thanks a lot!!


The RPMs currently install the Chef software as RubyGems, so you should be 
able to update the gems. The fun part is, the chef-server gems depend on merb 
1.1, which depends on bundler, which depends on RubyGems 1.3.6+. So first, 
update RubyGems:

sudo gem update --system

(unlike debian/ubuntu, you can actually do this on CentOS :)).

Then update the gems by installing them by name:

sudo gem install chef chef-server-api chef-solr

Finally, restart the services.

for i in server solr solr-indexer
do 
  sudo service chef-$i restart
done

I just performed this update on a centos 5 test system and it worked, in that 
the client was able to run, and save, to the chef server. I didn't test any 
cookbooks, though.

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