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Jotunn
Jotunn

Reputation: 394

/etc/chef-server directory not getting created at install

I'm having trouble installing Chef Sever (12.0.3) on my Centos 6.4 virtual machine. Whenever I install Chef Server and reconfigure with these commands, the /etc/chef-server does not get created:

rpm -ivh chef-server-core-12.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm    
chef-server-ctl reconfigure

This is a problem because all of the .pem files for authentication do not get created as well. Has anyone ran into this issue? I've searched, but I haven't found anyone with this same issue so far. Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 773

Answers (2)

ripevik
ripevik

Reputation: 53

Jotun, I think you may be needing the *.pem files and hence searching for chef-server directory. Chef 12 does not create the chef-server directory and that is because there is no default user (admin incase of chef 11) in chef 12. So you have to exclusively create the user using the below command:

chef-server-ctl user-create any_user_name your_first_name your_last_name email password --filename FILE_NAME

this will create a user with admin rights and the FILENAME should be the path where the admin.pem will be created.

In the same way for org creation,

chef-server-ctl org-create org_short_name org_full_name --association_user admin --filename FILENAME

this will create a organization associated with the admin user and the FILENAME should be the path where the chef-validator.pem will be created.

You can proceed with the steps that you used in chef 11 and configure the workstation.

Upvotes: 2

Jotunn
Jotunn

Reputation: 394

I couldn't find the reason this error was happening, but I just destroyed my VM and created a new one. Sorry if you are looking at this in the future and still want to know what was causing this problem.

Upvotes: 0

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