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

There are detailed notes on this that helped me completely, located here.

Jonathon Reinhart has already answered with the key bit, to edit /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb, alter the external_url and then run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure; sudo gitlab-ctl restart

However I needed to go a bit further and docs I linked above explained it. So what I ended up with looks like:

external_url 'https://gitlab.toilethumor.com'
nginx['ssl_certificate'] = "/www/ssl/star_toilethumor.com-chained.crt"
nginx['ssl_certificate_key'] = "/www/ssl/star_toilethumor.com.key"
nginx['proxy_set_headers'] = {
 "X-Forwarded-Proto" => "http",
 "CUSTOM_HEADER" => "VALUE"
}

Above, I've explicitly declared where my SSL goodies are on this server. And that's of course followed by

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
sudo gitlab-ctl restart

Also, when you switch the omnibus package to https, the bundled nginx will only serve on port 443. Since all my stuff is reached via reverse proxy, this part was potentially significant.

As I went through this, I screwed something up and it helpful to find the actual nginx logs, this lead me there:

sudo gitlab-ctl tail nginx