This installation guide was created for Debian/Ubuntu and tested on it. Please read `doc/install/requirements.md` for hardware and platform requirements. **Important Note:** The following steps have been known to work. If you deviate from this guide, do it with caution and make sure you don't violate any assumptions GitLab makes about its environment. For things like AWS installation scripts, init scripts or config files for alternative web server have a look at the "Advanced Setup Tips" section. **Important Note:** If you find a bug/error in this guide please submit an issue or pull request following the contribution guide (see `CONTRIBUTING.md`). - - - # Overview The GitLab installation consists of setting up the following components: 1. Packages / Dependencies 2. Ruby 3. System Users 4. Gitolite 5. Database 6. GitLab 7. Nginx # 1. Packages / Dependencies `sudo` is not installed on Debian by default. If you don't have it you'll need to install it first. # run as root apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get install sudo Make sure your system is up-to-date: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade **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 postfix 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 # 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-p327.tar.gz | tar xz cd ruby-1.9.3-p327 ./configure make sudo make install Install the Bundler Gem: sudo gem install bundler # 3. System Users Create a user for Git and Gitolite: sudo adduser \ --system \ --shell /bin/sh \ --gecos 'Git Version Control' \ --group \ --disabled-password \ --home /home/git \ git Create a user for GitLab: sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'GitLab' gitlab # Add it to the git group sudo usermod -a -G git gitlab # Generate the SSH key sudo -u gitlab -H ssh-keygen -q -N '' -t rsa -f /home/gitlab/.ssh/id_rsa # 4. Gitolite Clone GitLab's fork of the Gitolite source code: cd /home/git sudo -u git -H git clone -b gl-v320 https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitolite.git /home/git/gitolite Setup Gitolite with GitLab as its admin: **Important Note:** GitLab assumes *full and unshared* control over this Gitolite installation. # Add Gitolite scripts to $PATH sudo -u git -H mkdir /home/git/bin sudo -u git -H sh -c 'printf "%b\n%b\n" "PATH=\$PATH:/home/git/bin" "export PATH" >> /home/git/.profile' sudo -u git -H sh -c 'gitolite/install -ln /home/git/bin' # Copy the gitlab user's (public) SSH key ... sudo cp /home/gitlab/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /home/git/gitlab.pub sudo chmod 0444 /home/git/gitlab.pub # ... and use it as the admin key for the Gitolite setup sudo -u git -H sh -c "PATH=/home/git/bin:$PATH; gitolite setup -pk /home/git/gitlab.pub" Fix the directory permissions for the configuration directory: # Make sure the Gitolite config dir is owned by git sudo chmod 750 /home/git/.gitolite/ sudo chown -R git:git /home/git/.gitolite/ Fix the directory permissions for the repositories: # Make sure the repositories dir is owned by git and it stays that way sudo chmod -R ug+rwXs,o-rwx /home/git/repositories/ sudo chown -R git:git /home/git/repositories/ ## Add domains to list to the list of known hosts sudo -u gitlab -H ssh git@localhost sudo -u gitlab -H ssh git@YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME sudo -u gitlab -H ssh git@YOUR_GITOLITE_DOMAIN_NAME ## Test if everything works so far # Clone the admin repo so SSH adds localhost to known_hosts ... # ... and to be sure your users have access to Gitolite sudo -u gitlab -H git clone git@localhost:gitolite-admin.git /tmp/gitolite-admin # If it succeeded without errors you can remove the cloned repo sudo rm -rf /tmp/gitolite-admin **Important Note:** If you can't clone the `gitolite-admin` repository: **DO NOT PROCEED WITH INSTALLATION**! Check the [Trouble Shooting Guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-public-wiki/wiki/Trouble-Shooting-Guide) and make sure you have followed all of the above steps carefully. # 5. Database See `doc/install/databases.md` # 6. GitLab # We'll install GitLab into home directory of the user "gitlab" cd /home/gitlab ## Clone the Source # Clone GitLab repository sudo -u gitlab -H git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git gitlab # Go to gitlab dir cd /home/gitlab/gitlab # Checkout to stable release sudo -u gitlab -H git checkout 4-0-stable **Note:** You can change `4-0-stable` to `master` if you want the *bleeding edge* version, but do so with caution! ## Configure it cd /home/gitlab/gitlab # Copy the example GitLab config sudo -u gitlab -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 gitlab -H vim config/gitlab.yml # Make sure GitLab can write to the log/ and tmp/ directories sudo chown -R gitlab log/ sudo chown -R gitlab tmp/ sudo chmod -R u+rwX log/ sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/ # Make directory for satellites sudo -u gitlab -H mkdir /home/gitlab/gitlab-satellites # Copy the example Unicorn config sudo -u gitlab -H cp config/unicorn.rb.example config/unicorn.rb **Important Note:** Make sure to edit both files to match your setup. ## Configure GitLab DB settings # Mysql sudo -u gitlab cp config/database.yml.mysql config/database.yml # PostgreSQL sudo -u gitlab cp config/database.yml.postgresql config/database.yml Make sure to update username/password in config/database.yml. ## Install Gems cd /home/gitlab/gitlab sudo gem install charlock_holmes --version '0.6.9' # For MySQL (note, the option says "without") sudo -u gitlab -H bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres # Or for PostgreSQL sudo -u gitlab -H bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql ## Configure Git GitLab needs to be able to commit and push changes to Gitolite. In order to do that Git requires a username and email. (We recommend using the same address used for the `email.from` setting in `config/gitlab.yml`) sudo -u gitlab -H git config --global user.name "GitLab" sudo -u gitlab -H git config --global user.email "gitlab@localhost" ## Setup GitLab Hooks sudo cp ./lib/hooks/post-receive /home/git/.gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive sudo chown git:git /home/git/.gitolite/hooks/common/post-receive ## Initialise Database and Activate Advanced Features sudo -u gitlab -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/gitlab-recipes/master/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 is configured correctly: sudo -u gitlab -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 gitlab -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" 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/gitlab-recipes/master/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: # Change **YOUR_SERVER_IP** and **YOUR_SERVER_FQDN** # to the IP address and fully-qualified domain name # of your host serving GitLab sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gitlab ## Restart sudo /etc/init.d/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 chage 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.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/gitlab/.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. ## User-contributed Configurations You can find things like AWS installation scripts, init scripts or config files for alternative web server in our [recipes collection](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/).