# Install Chef Server 11 with AWS RDS

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/install-chef-server-11-with-aws-rds/12395>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/install-chef-server-11-with-aws-rds/12395 "2018-01-05T09:57:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnanasekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gnanasekar](https://discourse.chef.io/u/gnanasekar)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/install-chef-server-11-with-aws-rds/12395/1 "2018-01-05T09:57:15Z")

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Hello Friend’s, Please go through my [Issue](https://discourse.chef.io/). Now [AWS Certified](https://mindmajix.com/aws-certified-training) has postgresql service in RDS, So I tried to install Chef Server 11 with postgresql RDS instance by editing attributes in /opt/chef-server/embedded/cookbooks/chef-server/attributes/default.rb

default[‘chef\_server’][‘postgresql’][‘vip’] = "rds instance endpoint"  
and importing database with the following command

/opt/chef-server/embedded/bin/psql -h “rds instance endpoint” -p 5432 -U “user\_name” “database\_name” \< /opt/chef-server/embedded/service/erchef/lib/chef\_db-f086a97/priv/pgsql\_schema.sql  
But i am not able to achieve that. chef-server-ctl reconfigure gives an error curl -sf http:// 127.0.0.1:8000 /\_status returned 7

Please help me to configure chef server with RDS instance.

Thanks  
Gnanasekar

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**Author:** ![cheeseplus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/cheeseplus/32/960_2.png) [@cheeseplus](https://discourse.chef.io/u/cheeseplus)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/install-chef-server-11-with-aws-rds/12395/2 "2018-01-05T16:54:19Z")

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Chef Server 11 never supported an externalized Postgres instance, you’d need at least 12.2.0 but I’d recommend the latest release 12.17.15.

Cheers,