[chef] Re: RE: chef server 12 issues (Sorry, I can't find what you are looking for)

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Fouts, Chris wrote:

> Did you update your *.pem files and knife.rb to make your chef workstation 
> compatible with your Chef 12 server? The format is totally different.

pem files and knife.rb should generally be the same. What is different is 
that you have multi-tennancy, which means you need to create an organization 
and reference it in your chef_server_url, e.g. it should look like 
https://chef-server.example/organizations/ORGNAME/
 
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> Chris
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> Subject: [chef] chef server 12 issues (Sorry, I can't find what you are 
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> I have been successfully using Chef with a non-hosted Chef Server for quite 
> some time. I recently installed a new Chef Server 12 server and the latest 
> ChefDK. Now, I'm unable to use the "knife cookbook upload" command to 
> upload cookbooks to the new Chef server. Knife displays the HTML (ugh) 
> response from the server, which includes the 404 HTTP status code and 
> helpful message: Sorry, I can't find what you are look for.
> 
> In fact, the server appears to return 404 for lots of knife commands (e.g. 
> "knife role list", "knife role create ROLE", "knife cookbook list", "knife 
> client list", etc.). It appears to work fine for "knife user show USER" 
> (returning my user entry) and appears to be access checking fine, for 
> commands like "knife user list", which tells me I'm not the pivotal user. 
> But why is it not allowing me to create roles and upload cookbooks, etc?
> 
> I'd like to not have to revert to Chef 11.
> 
> Note: I installed the bare (no premium features) of Chef Server 12. As far 
> as I can tell, this is all that should be required. 
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Daniel DeLeo