[chef] Unable to upload cookbooks to chef server using knife

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Hi, 

We are unable to upload a cookbook to chef-server. There is connectivity
between the knife VM and chef server and the pem authentication works fine.
Checked with creating a node and client, those actions get reflected in the
knife node. with knife client list and knife node list.
However when we try to upload a cookbook with knife , we get ehe below error

/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `initialize': Connection refused -
connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `open'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `block in connect'


we tried setting the host name in chef server and knife both in /etc/hosts/
set the proxy in knife.rb (incase it was a proxy issue) but we still are not
able to upload

Any pointers are appriciated.