HTTPS Setup

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Looking for a working procedure for HTTPS. I have found a few different procedures, and have been able to follow some of the following “official” procedure:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/installation.html#using-https

I am currently stuck here:
In the config.yml of GitLab Shell:

  1. Set gitlab_url option to the HTTPS endpoint of GitLab (e.g. https://git.example.com ).
  2. Set the certificates using either the ca_file or ca_path option.

So I did #1, (I think, because in the instructions it did not say to trail with a slash but in the comments of the file it did… additionally the config file had :8080 in the url which I removed)

I’m lost on #2. I don’t know which to use, why use one over the other, etc.

So I went looking for a better, more complete, hand-holding procedure, because a procedure written by an average Joe is almost always better than what a vendor supplies, but no luck. Procedures I found didn’t line up with this official procedure at all, caused me more confusion.

This can’t be hard! I have set up https before. Agh.

Thanks

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Maybe something like this? It’s an average Joe type of article on the setup, that could perhaps supplement.

https://www.bonusbits.com/wiki/HowTo:Setup_HTTPS_for_Gitlab
https://www.bonusbits.com/wiki/HowTo:Generate_Self-Signed_SSL_Certificate_with_OpenSSL

Different admin’s setup can vary greatly, which I think sometimes GitLab’s official documentation goes a bit more vague and focus more on their product side.

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