[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Multiple Chef Servers on Different Ports

[mark bradley < >]

Thanks again for the links, they helped get me (initially) past the certificate issues.

I'm trying to start the webui and, although it seems to start correctly, I cannot seem to log in when presented with a login form. My chef-server is on port 4020 and the webui is on port 4050.

Which step is responsible for populating the database with the initial admin user?

Mark

Some of the log:

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:45:53 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET to localhost:5984/chef/_design/users/_view/all_id

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:45:53 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET to localhost:5984/chef/_design/id_map/_view/name_to_id

Logging to file at /var/log/chef/server-webui-qa.log

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:24 +0000] DEBUG: Signing the request as chef-webui-qa

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:24 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET to localhost:4020/environments

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:25 +0000] DEBUG: Signing the request as chef-webui-qa

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:25 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET to localhost:4020/environments

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:36 +0000] DEBUG: Signing the request as chef-webui-qa

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:36 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET to localhost:4020/environments

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:37 +0000] DEBUG: Signing the request as chef-webui-qa

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:37 +0000] DEBUG: Sending HTTP Request via GET to localhost:4020/users/a

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:37 +0000] INFO: HTTP Request Returned 404 Not Found: Cannot load user a

[Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:46:37 +0000] ERROR: 404 "Not Found"

From server-webui-qa.log:

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4050) ~ Started request handling: Thu Mar 15 00:46:36 +0000 2012

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4050) ~ Routed to: {"action"=>"login_exec", "form_submit"=>"login", "name"=>"a", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", \

"controller"=>"users"}

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4050) ~ Params: {"action"=>"login_exec", "form_submit"=>"login", "name"=>"a", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "co\

ntroller"=>"users"}

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4050) ~ {:dispatch_time=>0.115816, :action_time=>0.114778, :after_filters_time=>2.8e-05, :before_filters_ti\

me=>0.077609}

merb : chef-server-webui : worker (port 4050) ~

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Bryan McLellan < "> > wrote:

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:54 PM, mark bradley < "> > wrote:
> Well, it -was- going pretty well; I got one server up and running from a
> repository and, while getting the second one going, I'm running into
> certificate issues. Which highlights to me that I don't know enough about
> how certificates are generated and consumed in the Chef architecture. Are
> there any good pointers to documentation on this?

What kind of certificates? They're used for client authentication,
which is briefly described here:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/API+Clients

Make sure you set the path to the validation_key to a different value
for each server. This is the special client that can be used to
automate creating new clients. If the file specified by validation_key
does not exist it is recreated, but keep in mind that client keys are
actually stored internally in the database. This file on the server is
mostly a convenient way for you to get a couple of the validation
clients key. See
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Configuration+Settings#ChefConfigurationSettings-certificatesettings

Bryan