Initial problems with new install of Chef Server 11.0.6

#1

I’ve installed Chef Server 11.0.6 and Chef 11.4.0 onto Ubuntu 12.04.2 and
am now trying to get things configured. The server has a DNS CNAME I’d like
to associate with all chef related tasks, lets call it chef.cname.domain.org.
When I run ‘chef-server-ctl show-config’ I see that I have my host’s
generic FQDN listed in the lb/api_fqdn lb/web_ui_fqdn, nginx/server_name
and nginx/url keys. Obviously that needs to be fixed and I need to
reconfigure to use chef.cname.domain.org, however according to:
http://docs.opscode.com/server/ctl_chef_server.html the reconfigure
reconfigures the system according to /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb Not
only does that file not exist at that path, but according to ‘find’,
chef-server.rb doesn’t exist anywhere at all on my filesystem. I obviously
can use the ‘show-config’ command, but that dumps json. I don’t know the
syntax of the chef-server.rb file though.

– William

#2

The Opscode chef-server cookbook has a template for chef-server.rb;
this may be useful:
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server/blob/master/templates/default/chef-server.rb.erb

We use this template to configure our chef-servers.

Cheers,

AJ

On 3 April 2013 11:27, William McVey wam-chef@wamber.net wrote:

I’ve installed Chef Server 11.0.6 and Chef 11.4.0 onto Ubuntu 12.04.2 and am
now trying to get things configured. The server has a DNS CNAME I’d like to
associate with all chef related tasks, lets call it chef.cname.domain.org.
When I run ‘chef-server-ctl show-config’ I see that I have my host’s generic
FQDN listed in the lb/api_fqdn lb/web_ui_fqdn, nginx/server_name and
nginx/url keys. Obviously that needs to be fixed and I need to reconfigure
to use chef.cname.domain.org, however according to:
http://docs.opscode.com/server/ctl_chef_server.html the reconfigure
reconfigures the system according to /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb Not
only does that file not exist at that path, but according to ‘find’,
chef-server.rb doesn’t exist anywhere at all on my filesystem. I obviously
can use the ‘show-config’ command, but that dumps json. I don’t know the
syntax of the chef-server.rb file though.

– William

#3

Take a look here:

http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_chef_server.html

–
Daniel DeLeo

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, AJ Christensen wrote:

The Opscode chef-server cookbook has a template for chef-server.rb;
this may be useful:
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server/blob/master/templates/default/chef-server.rb.erb

We use this template to configure our chef-servers.

Cheers,

AJ

On 3 April 2013 11:27, William McVey <wam-chef@wamber.net (mailto:wam-chef@wamber.net)> wrote:

I’ve installed Chef Server 11.0.6 and Chef 11.4.0 onto Ubuntu 12.04.2 and am
now trying to get things configured. The server has a DNS CNAME I’d like to
associate with all chef related tasks, lets call it chef.cname.domain.org (http://chef.cname.domain.org).
When I run ‘chef-server-ctl show-config’ I see that I have my host’s generic
FQDN listed in the lb/api_fqdn lb/web_ui_fqdn, nginx/server_name and
nginx/url keys. Obviously that needs to be fixed and I need to reconfigure
to use chef.cname.domain.org (http://chef.cname.domain.org), however according to:
http://docs.opscode.com/server/ctl_chef_server.html the reconfigure
reconfigures the system according to /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb Not
only does that file not exist at that path, but according to ‘find’,
chef-server.rb doesn’t exist anywhere at all on my filesystem. I obviously
can use the ‘show-config’ command, but that dumps json. I don’t know the
syntax of the chef-server.rb file though.

– William

#4

this is awesome. do we need to run only chef-server-ctl reload after
changing these values? or chef-server-ctl reconfigure?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

Take a look here:

http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_chef_server.html

–
Daniel DeLeo

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, AJ Christensen wrote:

The Opscode chef-server cookbook has a template for chef-server.rb;
this may be useful:

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server/blob/master/templates/default/chef-server.rb.erb

We use this template to configure our chef-servers.

Cheers,

AJ

On 3 April 2013 11:27, William McVey wam-chef@wamber.net wrote:

I’ve installed Chef Server 11.0.6 and Chef 11.4.0 onto Ubuntu 12.04.2 and
am
now trying to get things configured. The server has a DNS CNAME I’d like to
associate with all chef related tasks, lets call it chef.cname.domain.org.
When I run ‘chef-server-ctl show-config’ I see that I have my host’s
generic
FQDN listed in the lb/api_fqdn lb/web_ui_fqdn, nginx/server_name and
nginx/url keys. Obviously that needs to be fixed and I need to reconfigure
to use chef.cname.domain.org, however according to:
http://docs.opscode.com/server/ctl_chef_server.html the reconfigure
reconfigures the system according to /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb Not
only does that file not exist at that path, but according to ‘find’,
chef-server.rb doesn’t exist anywhere at all on my filesystem. I obviously
can use the ‘show-config’ command, but that dumps json. I don’t know the
syntax of the chef-server.rb file though.

– William

#5

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

this is awesome. do we need to run only chef-server-ctl reload after changing these values? or chef-server-ctl reconfigure?

reconfigure is the one you want here–it writes out config files for component services and restarts them.

–
Daniel DeLeo

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Daniel DeLeo <dan@kallistec.com (mailto:dan@kallistec.com)> wrote:

Take a look here:

http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_chef_server.html

–
Daniel DeLeo

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 3:37 PM, AJ Christensen wrote:

The Opscode chef-server cookbook has a template for chef-server.rb;
this may be useful:
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/chef-server/blob/master/templates/default/chef-server.rb.erb

We use this template to configure our chef-servers.

Cheers,

AJ

On 3 April 2013 11:27, William McVey <wam-chef@wamber.net (mailto:wam-chef@wamber.net)> wrote:

I’ve installed Chef Server 11.0.6 and Chef 11.4.0 onto Ubuntu 12.04.2 and am
now trying to get things configured. The server has a DNS CNAME I’d like to
associate with all chef related tasks, lets call it chef.cname.domain.org (http://chef.cname.domain.org).
When I run ‘chef-server-ctl show-config’ I see that I have my host’s generic
FQDN listed in the lb/api_fqdn lb/web_ui_fqdn, nginx/server_name and
nginx/url keys. Obviously that needs to be fixed and I need to reconfigure
to use chef.cname.domain.org (http://chef.cname.domain.org), however according to:
http://docs.opscode.com/server/ctl_chef_server.html the reconfigure
reconfigures the system according to /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb Not
only does that file not exist at that path, but according to ‘find’,
chef-server.rb doesn’t exist anywhere at all on my filesystem. I obviously
can use the ‘show-config’ command, but that dumps json. I don’t know the
syntax of the chef-server.rb file though.

– William