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 letter https github com gitlabhq gitlabhq blob master doc install installation md Now how do we safely change the URL of a working install Apparently our URL is very long and we ve come up with a new URL I ve edited a number of configuration files and the Application Status Checks report everything is OK I ve rebooted the server to ensure things are still working I can access Nginx just fine over our original SSL I can browse the GitLab site create a repository etc I can fork and commit just fine It all seems to be OK but since this is not a native environment for me I wanted to double check that I have done everything to rename a GitLab site The files I ve edited are etc hosts 127 0 0 1 localhost 10 0 0 10 wake domain com wake 10 0 0 10 git domain com git home git gitlab config gitlab yml production amp base gitlab host git domain com home git gitlab-shell config yml gitlab url https git domain com - yes we are on SSL and that is working even on a new URL etc nginx sites-available gitlab server server name git domain com

Do not forget to clear the cache after updating the external url param in etc gitlab gitlab rb otherwise your existing project clone URLs will still be showing your old host name A simple 3 step process to change the hostname is as follows update the external url param in etc gitlab gitlab rb sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure sudo gitlab-ctl restart sudo gitlab-rake cache clear Ref https forum gitlab com t clone-url-wont-change 21692 6

You did everything correctly You might also change the email configuration depending on if the email server is also the same server The email configuration is in gitlab yml for the mails sent by GitLab and also the admin-email

GitLab Omnibus For an Omnibus install it is a little different The correct place in an Omnibus install is etc gitlab gitlab rb external url http gitlab example com Finally you ll need to execute sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure and sudo gitlab-ctl restart so the changes apply I was making changes in the wrong places and they were getting blown away The incorrect paths are opt gitlab embedded service gitlab-rails config gitlab yml var opt gitlab gitconfig var opt gitlab nginx conf gitlab-http conf Pay attention to those warnings that read This file is managed by gitlab-ctl Manual changes will be erased To change the contents below edit etc gitlab gitlab rb and run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

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 gt http CUSTOM HEADER gt 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

Actually this is NOT totally correct I arrived at this page trying to answer this question myself as we are transitioning production GitLab server from http to https and most stuff is working as described above but when you login to https server and everything looks fine except when you browse to a project or repository and it displays the SSH and HTTP instructions It says http and the instructions it displays also say http I found some more things to edit though home git gitlab config gitlab yml production amp base gitlab host git domain com Also edit these port 443 https true and etc nginx sites-available gitlab server server name git domain com Also edit these listen 443 ssl ssl certificate etc ssl certs somecert crt ssl certificate key etc ssl private somekey key

[gitlab] How do we change the URL of a working GitLab install?

Do not forget to clear the cache after updating the external_url param in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb, otherwise your existing project clone URLs will still be showing your old host name.

A simple 3 step process to change the hostname is as follows

update the external_url param in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
sudo gitlab-ctl restart
sudo gitlab-rake cache:clear

Ref:

https://forum.gitlab.com/t/clone-url-wont-change/21692/6

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