How do we change the URL of a working GitLab install?

Question

I have set up and we are running a default install of GitLab v6.0.1 (we\'re about to upgrade as well). It was a \"Production\" setup, following this guide precisely to the l

Answer 1

Actually, this is NOT totally correct. I arrived at this page, trying to answer this question myself, as we are transitioning production GitLab server from http:// to https:// and most stuff is working as described above, but when you login to https://server and everything looks fine ... except when you browse to a project or repository, and it displays the SSH and HTTP instructions... It says "http" and the instructions it displays also say "http".

I found some more things to edit though:

/home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml
  production: &base
    gitlab:
      host: git.domain.com

      # Also edit these:
      port: 443
      https: true
...

and

/etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab
  server {
    server_name git.domain.com;

    # Also edit these:
    listen 443 ssl;
    ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/somecert.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/somekey.key;

...