I have a CentOS 7 server (home file server) and I was trying to setup Gitlab with my own Nginx install (so I can use it for other things as well). Nginx version is 1.10.1.
When I use the recommended Nginx conf file without HTTPS, it works. But the HTTPS version does not (even though I have created a self-signed cert and pointed to that). With HTTPS, Chrome just says "This site can't be reached".
I can create another site in Nginx that uses a different name and it works with HTTPS, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
The working settings are:
upstream gitlab-workhorse {
server unix:/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-workhorse/socket;
}
## Normal HTTP host
server {
listen 0.0.0.0:80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name git.REDACTED; ## Replace this with something like gitlab.example.com
server_tokens off; ## Don't show the nginx version number, a security best practice
root /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/public;
## See app/controllers/application_controller.rb for headers set
## Individual nginx logs for this GitLab vhost
access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;
location / {
client_max_body_size 0;
gzip off;
## https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/694
## Some requests take more than 30 seconds.
proxy_read_timeout 300;
proxy_connect_timeout 300;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_pass http://gitlab-workhorse;
}
}
And the HTTPS settings that don't work:
upstream gitlab-workhorse {
server unix:/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-workhorse/socket fail_timeout=0;
}
## Redirects all HTTP traffic to the HTTPS host
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name git.mattval.dynu.com; ## Replace this with something like gitlab.example.com
server_tokens off; ## Don't show the nginx version number, a security best practice
return 301 https://$http_host:443$request_uri;
access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;
}
## HTTPS host
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
server_name git.REDACTED; ## Replace this with something like gitlab.example.com
server_tokens off; ## Don't show the nginx version number, a security best practice
root /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/public;
## Strong SSL Security
## https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx.html & https://cipherli.st/
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/gitlab.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/gitlab.key;
# GitLab needs backwards compatible ciphers to retain compatibility with Java IDEs
ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4";
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
## See app/controllers/application_controller.rb for headers set
## Individual nginx logs for this GitLab vhost
access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;
location / {
client_max_body_size 0;
gzip off;
## https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/694
## Some requests take more than 30 seconds.
proxy_read_timeout 300;
proxy_connect_timeout 300;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_pass http://gitlab-workhorse;
}
}