Chef Server Installation error

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I am a newbie to chef. I am trying to install chef server on an ec2 centos instance.

I am following this link to install the chef server.

But I am getting error at step 8 of installation.

[root@ip-10-105-203-174 ~]# knife configure -i
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-7.0.4/lib/ohai/loader.rb:188: warning: character class has `[' without escape
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ohai-7.0.4/lib/ohai/loader.rb:188: warning: regexp has `]' without escape
Overwrite /root/.chef/knife.rb? (Y/N)Y
Please enter the chef server URL: [https://ip-10-105-23-174:443] https://10.105.23.174
Please enter a name for the new user: [root]
Please enter the existing admin name: [admin]
Please enter the location of the existing admin's private key: [/etc/chef-server/admin.pem]
Please enter the validation clientname: [chef-validator]
Please enter the location of the validation key: [/etc/chef-server/chef-validator.pem] /root/.chef/chef-server/chef-validator.pem
Please enter the path to a chef repository (or leave blank):
Creating initial API user...
Please enter a password for the new user:
ERROR: Connection refused connecting to https://10.105.203.174/users, retry 1/5
ERROR: Connection refused connecting to https://10.105.203.174/users, retry 2/5
ERROR: Connection refused connecting to https://10.105.203.174/users, retry 3/5
ERROR: Connection refused connecting to https://10.105.203.174/users, retry 4/5
ERROR: Connection refused connecting to https://10.105.203.174/users, retry 5/5
ERROR: Network Error: Connection refused - Connection refused connecting to https://10.105.23.174/users, giving up
Check your knife configuration and network settings

Is this the right tutorial. Please help me resolving the issue.

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amazon-web-servicesamazon-ec2chef-infra
Can you add the output of: sudo chef-server-ctl status - Steven D
The issue is resolved. the hostname was not resolvable. - Megha Sharma
Could you please share your knife configuration? - Robert

2 Answers

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You seem to be doing the right thing for chef, but it looks like a fundamental networking issue. If I understand properly, you are logged into the chef server and trying to set up knife on the same box to talk contact itself. Is Chef server actually running? Use 'netstat -an' and verify that something is waiting on the :443 port. Can you use a browser from another host to contact it? You could also consider installing "knife" on another machine and running the same thing.

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Are you providing a valid chef-server url. At first look it looks like you are giving the workstation ip address.