gitlab with own nginx

Gitlab-with-unbundled-nginx.md

How to setup gitlab without embedded nginx

Install via omnibus-package

install the normal way:

wget https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu-14.04/gitlab_7.7.2-omnibus.5.4.2.ci-1_amd64.deb & > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install -y vim openssh-server postfix

# When download has finished:
sudo dpkg -i gitlab_7.7.2-omnibus.5.4.2.ci-1_amd64.deb

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Edit the /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb-file. Configure only the following settings:

• external_url: http://{your-hostname}
• ci_external_url: http://{your-hostname}:3000

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Run gitlab-ctl reconfigure.

Open a browser and open your gitlab and your gitlab-ci-page.

Copy the url-callback from ci webpage

Go to the gitlab page and login with

• Username: root
• Password: 5iveL!fe

and create your own password and login again.

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Go to Admin-Area -> Applications -> New Application and setup something similar to:

• Name: gitlab-Ci
• Redirect URI: {the url that was passed on gitlab-ci page as callbackurl}

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You got an application id and a Secret. You have to copy this in your /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb-file on:

• gitlab_ci['gitlab_server'] = { "url" => '{gitlab-url}', "app_id" => '{app-id}', "app_secret" => '{app-secret}' }

and uncomment this line and save the document.

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Run gitlab-ctl reconfigure again.

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Now login on gitlab ci and authorize with oauth.

Change to unbundled nginx

"Everything should work"

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Call gitlab-ctl stop

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Install nginx

# maybe uninstall existing first: sudo apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full

sudo apt-get install -y nginx

cp /var/opt/gitlab/nginx/conf/gitlab* /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

service nginx restart

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Open /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb-file again and set:

• web_server['external_users'] = ['www-data']
• nginx['enable'] = false

and call

gitlab-ctl reconfigure
gitlab-ctl start

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"Everything should work... again"

With unbundled nginx

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So how about Gitlab pages??

Thanks, thanks

Gitlab pages??

Hi folks,
I just spent most of the day finding out how to do this, so I thought I'd share. If you want to regenerate the nginx config files without running the whole cookbook, you can reenable the nginx['enable'] option, run

/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/chef-client -z -c /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/solo.rb -o 'recipe[gitlab::config],recipe[gitlab::nginx]'

copy the files from /var/opt/gitlab/nginx/conf/, than disable the option again and run

/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/chef-client -z -c /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/solo.rb -o 'recipe[gitlab::config],recipe[gitlab::nginx_disable]'

. NOTE: if you don't want chef to start the embedded nginx service during the first run, you should also set the bootstrap['enable'] option to false beforehand and possibly reenable it afterwards.