chef, Could not find cookbook in your cookbook path

Question

in my chef-repo I added a cookbook

cookbooks/mycookbook

when i do

$ knife cookbook upload mycookbook 

I get

ERROR: Could not find cookbook php-1.3.1 in your cookbook path, skipping it
Uploaded 0 cookbooks.

What did I do wrong here

Answer 1

A config.rb file is used to specify configuration details for knife, which is loaded every time the knife executable is run and is located by default at ~/.chef/config.rb (and if i am not mistaken, you can also place it within the your chef repository directory at .chef/config.rb).

make sure that you set cookbook_path in config.rb

cookbook_path

The Chef Infra Client sub-directory for storing cookbooks. This value can be a string or an array of file system locations, processed in the specified order. The last cookbook is considered to override local modifications. For example:

cookbook_path [
  '/var/chef/cookbooks',
  '/var/chef/site-cookbooks'
]