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GitLab: Install and configure

Installing and configure a gitlab server on vm-gittest.us.archive.org

For the basic requirements please check the document
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/requirements.md

Install and configure the necessary dependencies:

giovanni@vm-gittest:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
giovanni@vm-gittest:~$ sudo apt-get install postfix

Download and install debian package for Ubuntu 14.04

giovanni@vm-gittest:~$ wget https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu-14.04/gitlab_7.9.0-omnibus.2-1_amd64.deb
giovanni@vm-gittest:~$ sudo dpkg -i gitlab_7.9.0-omnibus.2-1_amd64.deb

We want to run CPU_NUM+1 uinicorn workers editing the file /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb adding the lines:

unicorn['worker_timeout'] = 60
unicorn['worker_processes'] = 3

Re-configure and start GitLab

giovanni@vm-gittest:~$ sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

Start GitLab

giovanni@vm-gittest:~$ sudo gitlab-ctl start

The default root credentials are:

Username: root 
Password: 5iveL!fe

The servers require some minutes to be usable, before you will receive a 502 status code.

WARNING
To make sure the UI is reachable only within the IA network we have to edit the file
/var/opt/gitlab/nginx/conf/gitlab-http.conf
adding the lines

server {
...
...
 
  allow  123.12.34.0/21;
  deny   all;
...
...
}

The git test vm is reachable at: http://vm-gittest.us.archive.org/
(the admin/root password is the usual one)