Gitlab

Links

• archlinux wiki

Log

Log files are in /var/log/gitlab

Change sidekiq log level

/usr/share/webapps/gitlab/config/initializers/sidekiq.rb

Sidekiq.configure_server do |config| # force WARN level config.logger.level = Logger::WARN # or set the same log level as Rails config.logger.level = Rails.logger.level

Rails Console Session

sudo -u gitlab $(cat environment | xargs) bundle-2.7 exec rails console -e production

Add new user

1. from admin account → menu → admin
2. Overview → Users
3. click on the button New user (top right)

Resend confirmation email: https://gitlab.domain.net/users/confirmation/new

Installation

1. install and configure PostgreSQL

sudo pacman gitlab

/etc/webapps/gitlab/gitlab.yml

host: gitlab.domain.net port: 443 https: true

Secret string

Fill the following files with a secret:

hexdump -v -n 64 -e '1/1 "%02x"' /dev/urandom | sudo dd of=/etc/webapps/gitlab/secret sudo chmod 640 /etc/webapps/gitlab/secret hexdump -v -n 64 -e '1/1 "%02x"' /dev/urandom | sudo dd of=/etc/webapps/gitlab-shell/secret sudo chmod 640 /etc/webapps/gitlab-shell/secret

Set secrets in the following configuration file:

/etc/webapps/gitlab/secrets.yml

production: secret_key_base: [secret] db_key_base: [secret] otp_key_base: [secret] openid_connect_signing_key: [secret] encrypted_settings_key_base: [secret]

Redis

# Add user gitlab to group redis cat /etc/group | grep redis sudo gpasswd -a gitlab redis

Listen on socket

/etc/redis/redis.conf

unixsocket /run/redis/redis.sock unixsocketperm 770 # don't listen on TCP #port 6379 port 0

/etc/webapps/gitlab/resque.yml

development: url: unix:/run/redis/redis.sock test: url: unix:/run/redis/redis.sock production: url: unix:/run/redis/redis.sock

PostgreSQL database

# switch to the PostgreSQL user sudo -iu postgres # create a user named gitlab with superuser rights createuser --interactive # login into the databases server psql # change the password of the gitlab user \password gitlab # create the database create database gitlabdb OWNER gitlab;

/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf

# TYPE DATABASE USER METHOD local gitlabdb gitlab scram-sha-256

# login as gitlab psql -U gitlab -d gitlabdb

/etc/webapps/gitlab/database.yml

production: main: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode database: gitlabdb username: gitlab password: [password] # host: localhost # port: 5432 socket: /run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432

# start redis and gitlab-gitaly sc-start redis sc-start gitlab-gitaly cd /usr/share/webapps/gitlab sudo -u gitlab $(cat environment | xargs) bundle-2.7 exec rake gitlab:setup

Check

# Adjust modifier bits sudo chmod -R ug+rwX,o-rwx /var/lib/gitlab/repositories/ sudo chmod -R ug-s /var/lib/gitlab/repositories sudo find /var/lib/gitlab/repositories/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod g+s sc-start postgresql sc-start redis sc-start gitlab.target sudo -u gitlab $(cat environment | xargs) bundle-2.7 exec rake gitlab:env:info sudo -u gitlab $(cat environment | xargs) bundle-2.7 exec rake gitlab:check

Nginx

/etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab.conf

upstream gitlab-workhorse { server unix:/run/gitlab/gitlab-workhorse.socket fail_timeout=0; } server { listen 80; # IPv4 HTTP #listen 443 ssl http2; # uncomment to enable IPv4 HTTPS + HTTP/2 #listen [::]:80; # uncomment to enable IPv6 HTTP #listen [::]:443 ssl http2; # uncomment to enable IPv6 HTTPS + HTTP/2 server_name gitlab.localhost; access_log /var/log/gitlab/nginx_access.log; error_log /var/log/gitlab/nginx_error.log; #ssl_certificate ssl/example.com.crt; #ssl_certificate_key ssl/example.com.key; location ~ ^/(assets)/ { root /usr/share/webapps/gitlab/public; gzip_static on; # to serve pre-gzipped version expires max; add_header Cache-Control public; } location / { # unlimited upload size in nginx (so the setting in GitLab applies) client_max_body_size 0; # proxy timeout should match the timeout value set in /etc/webapps/gitlab/puma.rb proxy_read_timeout 60; proxy_connect_timeout 60; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; #proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on; proxy_pass http://gitlab-workhorse; } error_page 404 /404.html; error_page 422 /422.html; error_page 500 /500.html; error_page 502 /502.html; error_page 503 /503.html; location ~ ^/(404|422|500|502|503)\.html$ { root /usr/share/webapps/gitlab/public; internal; } }

SMTP

/etc/webapps/gitlab/smtp_settings.rb

if Rails.env.production? Rails.application.config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp secrets = Gitlab::Email::SmtpConfig.secrets ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { address: "smtp.domain.net", port: 587, user_name: secrets.username, password: secrets.password, domain: "domain.net", authentication: :login, enable_starttls_auto: true, openssl_verify_mode: 'peer' # See ActionMailer documentation for other possible options } end

# add the username and password to the smtp:secret sudo -u gitlab $(cat environment | xargs) bundle-2.7 exec rake gitlab:smtp:secret:edit EDITOR=nano # open a Rails Console Session sudo -u gitlab $(cat environment | xargs) bundle-2.7 exec rails console -e production # check the configuration ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method # => :smtp ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings # => {:address=>"smtp.domain.net", :port=587, ... # send a test email Notify.test_email('user@domain.net', 'Hello World', 'This is a test message').deliver_now

Errors

Number of Sidekiq processes (cluster/worker) ... 0/1

Sidekiq: ... Running? ... yes
Number of Sidekiq processes (cluster/worker) ... 0/1
  Try fixing it:
  sudo systemctl restart gitlab-sidekiq.service
  Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.

All migrations up? ... Exception: No such file or directory - bundle

Database config exists? ... yes
All migrations up? ... Exception: No such file or directory - bundle

Cable config exists? ... no

Cable config exists? ... no
  Try fixing it:
  Copy config/cable.yml.example to config/cable.yml
  Update config/cable.yml to match your setup
  For more information see:
  doc/install/installation.md in section "GitLab"
  Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.