# Important notes This installation guide was created for and tested on **Debian/Ubuntu** operating systems. Please read [`doc/install/requirements.md`](./requirements.md) for hardware and operating system requirements. This is the official installation guide to set up a production server. To set up a **development installation** or for many other installation options please consult [the installation section in the readme](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq#installation). The following steps have been known to work. Please **use caution when you deviate** from this guide. Make sure you don't violate any assumptions GitLab makes about its environment. If you find a bug/error in this guide please **submit a pull request** following the [`contributing guide`](../../CONTRIBUTING.md). - - - # Overview The GitLab installation consists of setting up the following components: 1. Packages / Dependencies 2. Ruby 3. System Users 4. GitLab shell 5. Database 6. GitLab 7. Nginx # 1. Packages / Dependencies `sudo` is not installed on Debian by default. Make sure your system is up-to-date and install it. # run as root apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install sudo **Note:** Vim is an editor that is used here whenever there are files that need to be edited by hand. But, you can use any editor you like instead. # Install vim sudo apt-get install -y vim Install the required packages: sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl git-core openssh-server redis-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev Make sure you have the right version of Python installed. # Install Python sudo apt-get install python # Make sure that Python is 2.5+ (3.x is not supported at the moment) python --version # If it's Python 3 you might need to install Python 2 separately sudo apt-get install python2.7 # Make sure you can access Python via python2 python2 --version # If you get a "command not found" error create a link to the python binary sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2 **Note:** In order to receive mail notifications, make sure to install a mail server. By default, Debian is shipped with exim4 whereas Ubuntu does not ship with one. The recommended mail server is postfix and you can install it with: sudo apt-get install postfix # 2. Ruby Download and compile it: mkdir /tmp/ruby && cd /tmp/ruby curl --progress http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p392.tar.gz | tar xz cd ruby-1.9.3-p392 ./configure make sudo make install Install the Bundler Gem: sudo gem install bundler # 3. System Users Create a `git` user for Gitlab: sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'GitLab' git # 4. GitLab shell GitLab Shell is a ssh access and repository management software developed specially for GitLab. # Login as git sudo su git # Go to home directory cd /home/git # Clone gitlab shell git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.git cd gitlab-shell # switch to right version git checkout v1.4.0 cp config.yml.example config.yml # Edit config and replace gitlab_url # with something like 'http://domain.com/' vim config.yml # Do setup ./bin/install # 5. Database To setup the MySQL/PostgreSQL database and dependencies please see [`doc/install/databases.md`](./databases.md). # 6. GitLab # We'll install GitLab into home directory of the user "git" cd /home/git ## Clone the Source # Clone GitLab repository sudo -u git -H git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git gitlab # Go to gitlab dir cd /home/git/gitlab # Checkout to stable release sudo -u git -H git checkout 5-2-stable **Note:** You can change `5-2-stable` to `master` if you want the *bleeding edge* version, but do so with caution! ## Configure it cd /home/git/gitlab # Copy the example GitLab config sudo -u git -H cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml # Make sure to change "localhost" to the fully-qualified domain name of your # host serving GitLab where necessary sudo -u git -H vim config/gitlab.yml # Make sure GitLab can write to the log/ and tmp/ directories sudo chown -R git log/ sudo chown -R git tmp/ sudo chmod -R u+rwX log/ sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/ # Create directory for satellites sudo -u git -H mkdir /home/git/gitlab-satellites # Create directories for sockets/pids and make sure GitLab can write to them sudo -u git -H mkdir tmp/pids/ sudo -u git -H mkdir tmp/sockets/ sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/pids/ sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/sockets/ # Create public/uploads directory otherwise backup will fail sudo -u git -H mkdir public/uploads sudo chmod -R u+rwX public/uploads # Copy the example Puma config sudo -u git -H cp config/puma.rb.example config/puma.rb # Configure Git global settings for git user, useful when editing via web # Edit user.email according to what is set in gitlab.yml sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab" sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitlab@localhost" **Important Note:** Make sure to edit both `gitlab.yml` and `puma.rb` to match your setup. ## Configure GitLab DB settings # Mysql sudo -u git cp config/database.yml.mysql config/database.yml # PostgreSQL sudo -u git cp config/database.yml.postgresql config/database.yml Make sure to update username/password in config/database.yml. ## Install Gems cd /home/git/gitlab sudo gem install charlock_holmes --version '0.6.9.4' # For MySQL (note, the option says "without") sudo -u git -H bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres # Or for PostgreSQL sudo -u git -H bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql ## Initialise Database and Activate Advanced Features sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production ## Install Init Script Download the init script (will be /etc/init.d/gitlab): sudo curl --output /etc/init.d/gitlab https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/5-2-stable/lib/support/init.d/gitlab sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/gitlab Make GitLab start on boot: sudo update-rc.d gitlab defaults 21 ## Check Application Status Check if GitLab and its environment are configured correctly: sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production To make sure you didn't miss anything run a more thorough check with: sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production If all items are green, then congratulations on successfully installing GitLab! However there are still a few steps left. ## Start Your GitLab Instance sudo service gitlab start # or sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab restart # 7. Nginx **Note:** If you can't or don't want to use Nginx as your web server, have a look at the [`Advanced Setup Tips`](./installation.md#advanced-setup-tips) section. ## Installation sudo apt-get install nginx ## Site Configuration Download an example site config: sudo curl --output /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/5-2-stable/lib/support/nginx/gitlab sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gitlab Make sure to edit the config file to match your setup: # **YOUR_SERVER_FQDN** to the fully-qualified # domain name of your host serving GitLab. Also, replace # the 'listen' line with the following: # listen 80 default_server; # e.g., listen 192.168.1.1:80; sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab ## Restart sudo service nginx restart # Done! Visit YOUR_SERVER for your first GitLab login. The setup has created an admin account for you. You can use it to log in: admin@local.host 5iveL!fe **Important Note:** Please go over to your profile page and immediately change the password, so nobody can access your GitLab by using this login information later on. **Enjoy!** - - - # Advanced Setup Tips ## Custom Redis Connection If you'd like Resque to connect to a Redis server on a non-standard port or on a different host, you can configure its connection string via the `config/resque.yml` file. # example production: redis://redis.example.tld:6379 ## Custom SSH Connection If you are running SSH on a non-standard port, you must change the gitlab user's SSH config. # Add to /home/git/.ssh/config host localhost # Give your setup a name (here: override localhost) user git # Your remote git user port 2222 # Your port number hostname 127.0.0.1; # Your server name or IP You also need to change the corresponding options (e.g. ssh_user, ssh_host, admin_uri) in the `config\gitlab.yml` file. ## LDAP authentication You can configure LDAP authentication in config/gitlab.yml. Please restart GitLab after editing this file. ## Using Custom Omniauth Providers GitLab uses [Omniauth](http://www.omniauth.org/) for authentication and already ships with a few providers preinstalled (e.g. LDAP, GitHub, Twitter). But sometimes that is not enough and you need to integrate with other authentication solutions. For these cases you can use the Omniauth provider. ### Steps These steps are fairly general and you will need to figure out the exact details from the Omniauth provider's documentation. * Add `gem "omniauth-your-auth-provider"` to the [Gemfile](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/5-2-stable/Gemfile#L18) * Run `sudo -u git -H bundle install` to install the new gem(s) * Add provider specific configuration options to your `config/gitlab.yml` (you can use the [auth providers section of the example config](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/5-2-stable/config/gitlab.yml.example#L53) as a reference) * Add icons for the new provider into the [vendor/assets/images/authbuttons](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/tree/5-2-stable/vendor/assets/images/authbuttons) directory (you can find some more popular ones over at https://github.com/intridea/authbuttons) * Restart GitLab ### Examples If you have successfully set up a provider that is not shipped with GitLab itself, please let us know. You can help others by reporting successful configurations and probably share a few insights or provide warnings for common errors or pitfalls by sharing your experience [in the public Wiki](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-public-wiki/wiki/Working-Custom-Omniauth-Provider-Configurations). While we can't officially support every possible auth mechanism out there, we'd like to at least help those with special needs.