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Check your knife configuration and network settings, unable to upload cookbooks

While uploading cookbook to chef 11 server (OEL), I was getting the below errors

C:\Users\Administrator>knife cookbook upload testcookbook
Uploading testcookbook [0.1.0]
ERROR: Network Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2)
Check your knife configuration and network settings

C:\Users\Administrator>knife cookbook upload testcookbook
Uploading testcookbook1 [0.1.0]
ERROR: Network Error: getaddrinfo: No such host is known.
Check your knife configuration and network settings

To find what is causing this issue, I ran knife cookbook upload in debug mode

C:\Users\Administrator>knife cookbook upload testcookbook -s https://192.168.56.11 -V
Uploading testcookbook [0.1.0]
INFO: Validating ruby files
INFO: Validating templates
INFO: Syntax OK
INFO: Saving testcookbook
INFO: Uploading files
INFO: Uploading C:/chef/cookbooks/testcookbook/README.md (checksum hex = 866c66fbbeeed75645878322325a0ad3) to https://chef11server:443/bookshelf/organization-00000000000000000000000000000000/checksum-866c66fbbeeed75645878322325a0ad3?AWSAccessKeyId=46f5b52c94c12edb1e063949584cb104e33621d6&Expires=1369293107&Signature=T7CcJ8j4AfbL%2Bj9MW3VYaiOreAE%3D
INFO: Uploading C:/chef/cookbooks/testcookbook/metadata.rb (checksum hex = 898c2324db952165a2d1c5ccbe001e31) to https://chef11server:443/bookshelf/organization-00000000000000000000000000000000/checksum-898c2324db952165a2d1c5ccbe001e31?AWSAccessKeyId=46f5b52c94c12edb1e063949584cb104e33621d6&Expires=1369293107&Signature=bawORybiM1qEAcZg57fU05f09Ko%3D
INFO: Uploading C:/chef/cookbooks/testcookbook/recipes/default.rb (checksum hex = b1f1a0eb70815f2d9c4b037f42e5270d) to https://chef11server:443/bookshelf/organization-00000000000000000000000000000000/checksum-b1f1a0eb70815f2d9c4b037f42e5270d?AWSAccessKeyId=46f5b52c94c12edb1e063949584cb104e33621d6&Expires=1369293107&Signature=4np1gJX3OXt/nimyxkF5xuu6beQ%3D
INFO: Uploading C:/chef/cookbooks/testcookbook/CHANGELOG.md (checksum hex = c867cc5c2b8b26452dd4ea392008f334) to https://chef11server:443/bookshelf/organization-00000000000000000000000000000000/checksum-c867cc5c2b8b26452dd4ea392008f334?AWSAccessKeyId=46f5b52c94c12edb1e063949584cb104e33621d6&Expires=1369293107&Signature=RubHVNWnZyf9Np3/gZVGdX9owJE%3D
ERROR: Network Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2)
Check your knife configuration and network settings

Solution

Chef server uses FQDN for the redirection between the different components in this case was bookshelf and erchef. While install time the chef server we configure valid FQDN then we will face this issue..

So I created file called /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb, and added below lines... 
server_name = "192.168.56.11"
api_fqdn server_name
nginx['url'] = "https://#{server_name}"
nginx['server_name'] = server_name
lb['fqdn'] = server_name
bookshelf['vip'] = server_name

Next I run chef-server-ctl reconfigure.

...I was able upload the cookbook to chef server now.

Comments

  1. Suresh12 July 2013 at 03:15

    Thanks for Blogging this troubleshoot. It was useful for me coz was facing the same Issue.

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  2. Unknown21 September 2013 at 07:25

    Great!!
    You saved me
    Thanks a lot

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  3. Unknown1 December 2013 at 19:30

    For me it didn't make any difference... knife cookbook upload --all gave me this error, and upload worked fine. Weird

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  4. ubersoftware3 December 2013 at 23:56

    This was a pain to figure out ... your solution was the only one that worked.

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  5. Maciek16 January 2014 at 14:58

    You just saved me a headache. THANK YOU :) Is there someplace where I can read-up on this fqdn mess? Does this require an internal dns? :)

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  6. Unknown28 January 2014 at 08:26

    Thanks! Saved me too!!

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  7. Chandan Benjaram21 March 2014 at 00:01

    it also solved problem related to server_name not found type of err messages when uploading cookbooks to hosted chef-server running on vigrant/virtual box VMs.

    Thanks for the tip!

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    Thanks for posting this..

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    Thanks a lot! It works! =)
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