Commit 77d93d33 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add missing steps of Pages source installation

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# GitLab Pages administration for source installations
>**Note:**
Before attempting to enable GitLab Pages, first make sure you have
[installed GitLab](../../install/installation.md) successfully.
This is the documentation for configuring a GitLab Pages when you have installed
GitLab from source and not using the Omnibus packages.
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## Overview
[Read the Omnibus overview section.](index.md#overview)
GitLab Pages makes use of the [GitLab Pages daemon], a simple HTTP server
written in Go that can listen on an external IP address and provide support for
custom domains and custom certificates. It supports dynamic certificates through
SNI and exposes pages using HTTP2 by default.
You are encouraged to read its [README][pages-readme] to fully understand how
it works.
---
In the case of [custom domains](#custom-domains) (but not
[wildcard domains](#wildcard-domains)), the Pages daemon needs to listen on
ports `80` and/or `443`. For that reason, there is some flexibility in the way
which you can set it up:
1. Run the Pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on a secondary IP.
1. Run the Pages daemon in a separate server. In that case, the
[Pages path](#change-storage-path) must also be present in the server that
the Pages daemon is installed, so you will have to share it via network.
1. Run the Pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on the same IP
but on different ports. In that case, you will have to proxy the traffic with
a loadbalancer. If you choose that route note that you should use TCP load
balancing for HTTPS. If you use TLS-termination (HTTPS-load balancing) the
pages will not be able to be served with user provided certificates. For
HTTP it's OK to use HTTP or TCP load balancing.
In this document, we will proceed assuming the first option. If you are not
supporting custom domains a secondary IP is not needed.
## Prerequisites
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cd /home/git
sudo -u git -H git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages.git
cd gitlab-pages
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.2.4
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.3.2
sudo -u git -H make
```
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https: false
```
1. Copy the `gitlab-pages-ssl` Nginx configuration file:
1. Edit `/etc/default/gitlab` and set `gitlab_pages_enabled` to `true` in
order to enable the pages daemon. In `gitlab_pages_options` the
`-pages-domain` must match the `host` setting that you set above.
```bash
sudo cp lib/support/nginx/gitlab-pages-ssl /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab-pages-ssl.conf
sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}/gitlab-pages-ssl.conf
```
gitlab_pages_enabled=true
gitlab_pages_options="-pages-domain example.io -pages-root $app_root/shared/pages -listen-proxy 127.0.0.1:8090
```
1. Copy the `gitlab-pages` Nginx configuration file:
Replace `gitlab-pages-ssl` with `gitlab-pages` if you are not using SSL.
```bash
sudo cp lib/support/nginx/gitlab-pages /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab-pages.conf
sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}/gitlab-pages.conf
```
1. Restart NGINX
1. [Restart GitLab][restart]
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cd /home/git
sudo -u git -H git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages.git
cd gitlab-pages
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.2.4
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.3.2
sudo -u git -H make
```
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https: true
```
1. Edit `/etc/default/gitlab` and set `gitlab_pages_enabled` to `true` in
order to enable the pages daemon. In `gitlab_pages_options` the
`-pages-domain` must match the `host` setting that you set above.
The `-root-cert` and `-root-key` settings are the wildcard TLS certificates
of the `example.io` domain:
```
gitlab_pages_enabled=true
gitlab_pages_options="-pages-domain example.io -pages-root $app_root/shared/pages -listen-proxy 127.0.0.1:8090 -root-cert /path/to/example.io.crt -root-key /path/to/example.io.key
```
1. Copy the `gitlab-pages-ssl` Nginx configuration file:
```bash
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sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}/gitlab-pages-ssl.conf
```
Replace `gitlab-pages-ssl` with `gitlab-pages` if you are not using SSL.
1. Restart NGINX
1. [Restart GitLab][restart]
## Advanced configuration
In addition to the wildcard domains, you can also have the option to configure
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cd /home/git
sudo -u git -H git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages.git
cd gitlab-pages
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.2.4
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.3.2
sudo -u git -H make
```
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1. Copy the `gitlab-pages-ssl` Nginx configuration file:
```bash
sudo cp lib/support/nginx/gitlab-pages-ssl /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab-pages-ssl.conf
sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}/gitlab-pages-ssl.conf
sudo cp lib/support/nginx/gitlab-pages /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab-pages.conf
sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}/gitlab-pages.conf
```
Replace `gitlab-pages-ssl` with `gitlab-pages` if you are not using SSL.
1. Edit all GitLab related configs in `/etc/nginx/site-available/` and replace
`0.0.0.0` with `1.1.1.1`, where `1.1.1.1` the primary IP where GitLab
listens to.
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cd /home/git
sudo -u git -H git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages.git
cd gitlab-pages
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.2.4
sudo -u git -H git checkout v0.3.2
sudo -u git -H make
```
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sudo ln -sf /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}/gitlab-pages-ssl.conf
```
Replace `gitlab-pages-ssl` with `gitlab-pages` if you are not using SSL.
1. Edit all GitLab related configs in `/etc/nginx/site-available/` and replace
`0.0.0.0` with `1.1.1.1`, where `1.1.1.1` the primary IP where GitLab
listens to.
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[pages-userguide]: ../../user/project/pages/index.md
[reconfigure]: ../restart_gitlab.md#omnibus-gitlab-reconfigure
[restart]: ../restart_gitlab.md#installations-from-source
[gitlab-pages]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/tree/v0.2.4
[gitlab-pages]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/tree/v0.3.2
[gl-example]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/lib/support/init.d/gitlab.default.example
[shared runners]: ../../ci/runners/README.md
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