I wanted to expand some on the answers since they don't give a complete picture. This applies to Chef 11 (hopefully Chef 12 is smarter)
In my case I rolled a master up under VPC #1 which gave it an internal address like this
ip-10-0-0-10.ec2.internal
Because I was only playing with the VPC initially, I had misconfigured some things I needed so I had to drop it and I created a new scheme. Thankfully, I was able to snapshot the old Chef master and bring it up under the new VPC but I found that I couldn't log into Chef anymore. It took some digging but I found in my /var/log/chef-server/chef-server-webui/current
log that the install had glommed onto the old hostname and set that as the internal URL for... everything. This caused problems after the internal hostname change
2014-12-24_16:19:09.46680 SocketError: Error connecting to https://ip-10-0-0-10.ec2.internal/users/admin - getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Now, to the OP answer
Need to think about elastic IP as potential option for my chef-server
In my case, I just added a CNAME
to CloudFlare and set that as my permanent address. Since I can set CloudFlare to a low TTL on that one address it makes it easy to move it around between IP changes (I don't need an Elastic IP while I'm just getting it configured). This way I could then tell Chef to always look for the same URL and not worry about an EIP.
Once that was done, I had to update Chef. I don't know what changed (this is 11.16.4) but I found the configs live in /var/opt/chef-server/chef-server-webui/etc/chefserver.rb
as opposed to some of the other answers listing chef-server.rb
. Not sure if that's a YMMV thing or not.
I changed the following towards the bottom of that file
# Environment specific application configuration.
# These values override the ones set in 'RAILS_ROOT/config/application.rb'
#config.chef_server_url = "https://ip-10-0-0-10.ec2.internal"
config.chef_server_url = "https://chef.mydomain.com"
I also changed /var/opt/chef-server/nginx/etc/chef_https_lb.conf
server_name chef.mydomain.com;
Finally I restarted Chef
chef-server-ctl restart
That seems to have done the trick. Logins work again.