Cookbook upload failing with 404

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi, i try to upload a cookbook to our chef server, but with no success.
I've installed the chef server, reconfigured it, created the organization and user. As next I installed chefdk on my workstation and created a cookbook. I created the knife.rb, downloaded the pem files, but while upload of cookbooks I get following message:

ERROR: The object you are looking for could not be found
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        <div id="content">
          <h1>404 - Not Found</h1>
          <p>Sorry, I can't find what you are looking for.</p>
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chef-server-ctl responses with:
10.21.248.66 - - [06/Sep/2018:17:12:03 +0200] "GET 
/cookbooks?num_versions=all HTTP/1.1" 404 "0.001" 558 "-" "Chef 
Knife/14.2.0 (ruby-2.5.1-p57; ohai-14.2.0; x86_64-linux; 
+https://chef.io)" "-" "-" "-" "14.2.0" "algorithm=sha1;version=1.1;" 
"some_user" "2018-09-06T15:12:03Z" "some_string" 1033

We are running our Chef Server on Ubuntu 16.04. My Chef-workstation is running on Ubuntu 18.04

Anyone idea what is going wrong?

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Can you post what command you are actually running to attempt an upload?

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The command I am running is:
knife upload cookbook test-cookbook.

But few second ago just solved the problem. My problem was my knife.rb in ~/.chef and not specified config file.
I had to add organisation in the url like https://chef-server/organisation/my-org and call the knife command mit "-c /path/to/config".

Thanks for quick reply anyway. Can you tell me, where can I store informations about knife, like default knife.rb?

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I actually use the config.rb to store my configurations, since it is a replacement for knife.rb and all the settings in knife.rb work the same.
https://docs.chef.io/config_rb.html

If you are using the default ~/.chef location it should automatically find it since knife runs through several default paths.
pulled from "https://docs.chef.io/knife_setup.html"
The config.rb file is loaded every time the knife command is invoked using the following load order:

  • From a specified location given the --config flag
  • From a config.rb file within a .chef directory in the current working directory ex: ./.chef/config.rb
  • From a config.rb file within a .chef directory located one directory above the current working directory: ex: ../.chef/config.rb
  • From ~/.chef/config.rb (macOS and Linux platforms) or c:\Users\<username>\.chef (Microsoft Windows platform)