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

[Albert Llop < >]

I finally got it all working today (kind of). Will try to write the problems 
I've had (next week though) and see if I was doing something wrong and if I 
contribute with something.

Thanks for the help!

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On 09/07/2010, at 16:53, Joshua Timberman 
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 wrote:

> 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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