[chef] Re: Re: OSS chef-server

[BK Box < >]

Hi Joseph,

Yes I followed those instructions, but the problem I'm having is from the node being bootstrapped. The node installs chef, registers with the chef-server, and starts the run_list. When it gets to the point to sync the cookbooks, the server responds with the location of the cookbooks at the domain instead of the IP address. Since the domain is not valid, the bootstrapped node cannot resolve it and fails. I could set an /etc/hosts on the new node, but that doesn't fix my problem of build and bootstrap with one command.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Joseph Smith < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi BK,

What's the output of hostname -f?

Have you followed the instructions for setting up a test environment without adding it to DNS as specified here:

http://docs.opscode.com/install_server.html ?

js

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:45 PM, BK Box < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ohai,

So I have been trying to spin up a new chef-server to test things out, but it is only temporary, so I have no need for an actual DNS entry to be setup. Although, no matter what configuration item I change it never downloads the cookbook from the IP address:

Error connecting to https://chef.example.com/bookshelf/organization

I have tried the following changes in the chef-server.rb and confirmed the settings are actually changed after a reconfigure:

api_fqdn "1.2.3.4"

#nginx['server_name'] = "chef.example.com"

nginx['server_name'] = "1.2.3.4"

nginx['url'] = "https://1.2.3.4"

chef_server_webui['web_ui_admin_user_name'] = "admin"

bookshelf["vip"] = node["ipaddress"]

bookshelf["url"] = "https://#{node['ipaddress']}"

I even recursively grepped all of /var/opt/chef-server to find the domain and change it from domain to IP and restarted. 

Nothing.

Has anyone used OSS chef-server with just the IP of the server?

Thanks.

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BK Box