GitLab Automated Installation

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This repository holds scripts that will perform automated installation of GitLab on your server.

Supported Systems

These are currently the tested and supported systems.

• Ubuntu Server 12.04 64-Bit
• Ubuntu Server 13.04 64-Bit

Usage

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu Server 12.04 or 13.04 64-Bit, issue the following commands. Ensure that you use the -d or --domain-var flags to specify your domain name, and --mysql or --postgresql to choose your database. PostgreSQL is the default, and is recommended.

# Download the script and make it executable
wget -O ~/ubuntu-server-12.04.sh https://raw.github.com/caseyscarborough/gitlab-install/master/ubuntu-server-12.04.sh
chmod u+x ~/ubuntu-server-12.04.sh

# Display the help menu
~/ubuntu-server-12.04.sh (-h OR --help)

# Run the script
sudo ~/ubuntu-server-12.04.sh -d gitlab.example.com (--mysql OR --postgresql)

Note: Although this script is titled ubuntu-server-12.04.sh, it does in fact work on both 12.04 and 13.04.

Debian

Note: The Debian script is currently outdated, and only installs GitLab v6.1. The primary focus is for the Ubuntu install, but if anyone wants to update the Debian script, pull requests are welcome.

For Debian 7.1 64-Bit, issue the following command as the root user, ensuring that you update the DOMAIN_VAR variable with your respective domain name. You'll also more than likely need to install curl with apt-get install -y curl.

curl https://raw.github.com/caseyscarborough/gitlab-install/master/debian-7.1.sh | DOMAIN_VAR=gitlab.example.com bash

After the script runs, your installation of GitLab should be fully completed and ready to go. You can then navigate to the application using your server's domain name.

Troubleshooting

If you run into problems, the first thing to check is to make sure that each file got it's proper configuration added. Everything listed below should happen automatedly, but there is always a chance for error. You can also check out the GitLab Troubleshooting Guide for further help. The following are the files to check and what should be set:

/home/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml

This file should have the gitlab_url set to the URL of your GitLab instance (with a trailing slash).

  gitlab_url: "http://gitlab.example.com/"

/home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml

This file should have the hostname set under the web server settings.

gitlab:
  ## Web server settings
  host: gitlab.example.com
  port: 80

/home/git/gitlab/config/database.yml

This file should have the gitlab user and password for the database configuration.

production:
  username: gitlab
  password: kenvo2i3j0239urlks

/etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab

This file should have the server name in the virtual host set to your domain.

server {
  listen *:80;
  server_name gitlab.example.com;
  server_token off;
  root /home/git/gitlab/public;
}