[chef] Re: Re: chef- server setup -not working properly

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, June 2, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Sivakumar Gopalan wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> > I am using open source chef server,for a past few days my server setup is 
> > not working it shows error when i use knife commnand like this:
> > 
> > ERROR: Server returned error for 
> > https://mychefserver.example.com/cookbooks?num_versions=all, retrying 1/5 ;
> > in 4s
> > ERROR: Server returned error for 
> > https://mychefserver.example.com/cookbooks?num_versions=all, retrying 2/5 ;
> > in 6s
> > ERROR: Server returned error for 
> > https://mychefserver.example.com/cookbooks?num_versions=all, retrying 3/5 ;
> > in 10s
> > ERROR: Server returned error for 
> > https://mychefserver.example.com/cookbooks?num_versions=all, retrying 4/5 ;
> > in 17s
> > ERROR: Server returned error for 
> > https://mychefserver.example.com/cookbooks?num_versions=all, retrying 5/5 ;
> > in 62s
> > ERROR: bad gateway
> 
> 
> It looks like there is something wrong with the configuration. Do you have 
> a domain example.com (http://example.com) in your local network ? If not 
> then you need to check if you have given a right FDQN [1] for your chef 
> server. 
> 
> [1] http://kb.iu.edu/data/aiuv.html ;
> 
> Rgds,
> Siva.

run `chef-server-ctl tail` to view the server error logs which should have 
more information. Are you running any automated processes (like chef-client) 
on the server that could be modifying the server configuration?

-- 
Daniel DeLeo