The difficulty in getting it to work with CentOS/RHEL is another problem for me. Focusing on Ubuntu is nice, but we run CentOS on our servers and even trying out the software on that distro is quite difficult.
Or at least it was when I tried it last week. Anyone have any success with that?
Just installed Gitlab successfully on RHEL6. Some modifications to the installation steps:
- I used RVM to install Ruby 1.9.3. This should be fairly straightforward.
- adduser command has a different interface on RHEL, but it shouldn’t be hard to figure out.
- I used Apache ProxyPass instead of Nginx. unicorn.rb needed to be updated to listen on a tcp port instead of a socket file.
- Supplied init.d script did not work out of box. Some modifications were required.
- Redis server was installed from REMI.
Let me know where you’re stuck and I can try to help you.
I agree that Gitlab is not very easy to install, as there are many complicated steps. The benefits of having a free private GitHub, though, were totally worth it.
Here are my notes for when I tried installing Gitlab on a fresh install of CentOS 6.3 a couple of months ago. It goes up to the point of running `rails server` to get you started, and the rest is like setting up a normal Rails application.
Or at least it was when I tried it last week. Anyone have any success with that?