[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Installation of Chef 11.0.4-1 on CentOS 6

[Sascha Bates < >]

A few more points ->
If the server has an assigned hostname but it doesn't resolve, the install will fail with mysterious error message. 
If there is another web server already running on the server, the pedant testing will fail in a non-obvious way as well. 

I had a server handed to me by my client who had been using it for something else (hand me down server). They changed the host name on the server, but it was just a place holder and didn't really exist.  I fixed it by adding the machine IP/hostname to the host file. This is documented here: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-3837

The second thing I encountered on my hand-me-down server is that someone already had an httpd service running and I didn't notice until I checked the nginx logs and found the "address already in use." Pedant was failing with plain connection reset. 

These were easy for me to resolve, but I just wanted to toss them out there for other things that people can check on.

Sascha

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On 2/13/13 10:33 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

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A few points:

* The server and client versions are not synchronized any more. With Chef 10, we released lots of identical versions of the server just to keep the version numbers the same, and now that client and server are completely different codebases there's no reason to keep doing this.

* The omnibus server packages don't start any services by default. Starting services by default causes lots of people lots of grief, so we chose not to do it. Post install script leaves you a message to run `chef-server-ctl reconfigure` which configures the components and starts the services.

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Daniel DeLeo

On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Jesse Campbell wrote:

which services were not running?

The web ui had a vulnerability, so it is disabled by default.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Ashutosh Narayan < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Sean,

I installed the RPM but services were not running.

I found this blog post helpful. 

But again I have now downgraded to Chef 10.18.0

to configure systems. May be in a weeks time

I will try out with Chef 11.

Thank you,

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Sean OMeara < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Ashutosh.

All you need is the RPM. Client and server don't have to match exactly.

-s

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Ashutosh Narayan
< " target="_blank"> > wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I went through this link but the server rpm package and
> client rpm package version doesn't match.
> Server version shows 11.0.4 for Enterprise Linux
> version 6 ; which has an rpm named
> chef-server-11.0.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm and Client tab
> has chef-11.0.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm version.
> This could lead to problems at later stage.
> Just installing the chef rpm is not helping me out.
> Have a doubt - On Server - I need to install chef via rpm or gem.
> I need to have ruby installed as well, right ?
>
> Am also stuck in setting up a workstation by following this link
> Any pointers are appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Jens Skott < " target="_blank"> > wrote:
>>
>> http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/
>>
>> Easy peasy =)
>> My dilema is migrating encrypted databags + clients to chef 11 =)
>>
>> Jens Skott
>> Tel: +46-8-5142 4396
>> Schibsted Centralen IT
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/2/13 Ashutosh Narayan < " target="_blank"> >:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I am a Chef newbie. Getting started to install a
>> > client-server setup using Chef version 11.0.4-1.
>> > I am lost in the documentations and somehow
>> > things are not working for me.
>> > Please guide me through sequence of steps
>> > to be followed to install Chef-Server and
>> > Chef-Client ( workstation ) on CentOS 6 x86_64.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > --
>> > Ashutosh Narayan
>> >
>> > http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/
>> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ashutosh Narayan
>
> http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/
>

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