# Cookbook upload failing with 404

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookbook-upload-failing-with-404/13613>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookbook-upload-failing-with-404/13613 "2018-09-07T12:51:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@wintermute](https://discourse.chef.io/u/wintermute)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookbook-upload-failing-with-404/13613/1 "2018-09-07T12:51:10Z")

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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:

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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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**Author:** ![evansm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3e96dc/32.png) [@evansm](https://discourse.chef.io/u/evansm)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookbook-upload-failing-with-404/13613/2 "2018-09-07T13:00:16Z")

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

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**Author:** ![wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@wintermute](https://discourse.chef.io/u/wintermute)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookbook-upload-failing-with-404/13613/3 "2018-09-07T13:05:10Z")

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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](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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**Author:** ![evansm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3e96dc/32.png) [@evansm](https://discourse.chef.io/u/evansm)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/cookbook-upload-failing-with-404/13613/4 "2018-09-07T13:13:58Z")

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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](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](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)