I am trying to set up gitlab with apache as the webserver. Thusfar, I have been unsuccesful. The sidekiq and unicorn start fine, but when I try to visit the root site, I get redirected to /users/login and get in a loop.
I use apache 2.2 and gitlab 6.5.
My apache config:
#This configuration has been tested on GitLab 6.0.0 and GitLab 6.0.1
#Note this config assumes unicorn is listening on default port 8080.
#Module dependencies
# mod_rewrite
# mod_proxy
# mod_proxy_http
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName gitlab.martijn.osbournia.com
ServerSignature Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8081
ProxyPassReverse http://gitlab.martijn.osbournia.com/
</Location>
#apache equivalent of nginx try files
# http://serverfault.com/questions/290784/what-is-apaches-equivalent-of-nginxs-try-files
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10954516/apache2-proxypass-for-rails-app-gitlab
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* http://127.0.0.1:8081%{REQEST_URI} [P,QSA]
# needed for downloading attachments
DocumentRoot /home/gitlab_martijn/gitlab/public
#Set up apache error documents, if back end goes down (i.e. 503 error) then a maintenance/deploy page is thrown up.
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
ErrorDocument 422 /422.html
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html
ErrorDocument 503 /deploy.html
LogFormat "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common_forwarded
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab.martijn.osbournia.com_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab.martijn.osbournia.com_forwarded.log common_forwarded
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab.martijn.osbournia.com_access.log combined env=!dontlog
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab.martijn.osbournia.com.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Gitlab/unicorn production log from a single page request:
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:00 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 1ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:02 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Started GET "/" for 77.168.84.58 at 2014-02-17 12:10:02 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 2ms
Best Answer
The problem comes from your reverse proxy definition. You have a loop because of that satement :
Modify your configuration like this :