Question

When I try to configure knife in AWS CentOS server using the following command:

knife configure -i

This is the output:

Where should I put the config file? [/root/.chef/knife.rb] 
Please enter the chef server URL: [http://myserverurl.com:4000] 
Please enter a clientname for the new client: [jim]  
Please enter the existing admin clientname: [chef-webui] 
Please enter the location of the existing admin client's private key: [/etc/chef/webui.pem] 
Please enter the validation clientname: [chef-validator] 
Please enter the location of the validation key: [/etc/chef/validation.pem] 
Please enter the path to a chef repository (or leave blank): 
Creating initial API user...

and this is the error:

ERROR: Server returned error for http://myserverurl.com:4000/clients, retrying 1/5 in 4s
ERROR: Server returned error for http://myserverurl.com:4000/clients/jim, retrying 1/5 in 3s

Update

I also tried to take a look at /root/.chef/knife.rb and this is the content of the file:

log_level                :info
log_location             STDOUT
node_name                'jim'
client_key               '/root/.chef/jim.pem'
validation_client_name   'chef-validator'
validation_key           '/etc/chef/validation.pem'
chef_server_url          'http://myserverurl.com:4000'
cache_type               'BasicFile'
cache_options( :path => '/root/.chef/checksums' )

The file /root/.chef/jim.pem does not exists, is it auto-generated or should I create it.

Answer 1

Chef solo didn’t start rabbitmq for some reason:

sudo service rabbitmq-server restart