[Gitlab]Where can I find Gitlab Pages hosted on the private Gitlab instance

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I tried to set up Gitlab Pages, until now I finished uploading my static website files👇

Uploading artifacts...
coverage/lcov-report: found 77 matching files      
Uploading artifacts to coordinator... ok            id=1038 responseStatus=201 Created token=QXJjgkf2

But I got no idea where my page hosted.

I took a glance at this documentation but it was still vague to me.

I have a private Gitlab instance.
My Gitlab entry is under http://abc.def.com (I configured a type A DNS to my host IP 111.111.111.111, a reverse proxy pointing at localhost:9000).
My project project1 is under my team team1.
I have also configured DNS http://team1.abc.def.com to 111.111.111.111 , and there is a nginx reverse proxy on my server which http://team1.abc.def.com -> localhost:9000.

I assume I should see my static page available on http://team1.abc.def.com/project1 , but nothing was there. Where exactly are my pages hosted?

Best Answer

You have to activate the pages feature. In your gitlab.rb:

pages_external_url "IP_OF_YOUR_GITLAB"
gitlab_pages['enable'] = true

There is a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD8c7WNcc6s&feature=youtu.be And the complete documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/pages/index.html

General Design

generating a pair of SSH keys
adding the private one as a secure environment variable of your project
making the private one available to your test scripts on GitLab-CI
adding the public one as a deploy key on each of your private dependencies

Generating a pair of public and private SSH keys

Generate a pair of public and private SSH keys without passphrase:

ssh-keygen -b 4096 -C "<name of your project>" -N "" -f /tmp/name_of_your_project.key

Adding the private SSH key to your project

You need to add the key as a secure environment variable to your project as following:

browse https://<gitlab_host>/<group>/<project_name>/variables
click on "Add a variable"
fill the text field Key with SSH_PRIVATE_KEY
fill the text field Value with the private SSH key itself
click on "Save changes"

Exposing the private SSH key to your test scripts

In order to make your private key available to your test scripts you need to add the following to your .gitlab-ci.yml file:

before_script:
  # install ssh-agent
  - 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
  # run ssh-agent
  - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
  # add ssh key stored in SSH_PRIVATE_KEY variable to the agent store
  - ssh-add <(echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY")
  # disable host key checking (NOTE: makes you susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks)
  # WARNING: use only in docker container, if you use it with shell you will overwrite your user's ssh config
  - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
  - echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh/config

Code Snippet comes from GitLab documentation

Adding the public SSH key as a deploy key to all your private dependencies

You need to register the public SSH key as deploy key to all your private dependencies as following:

browse https://<gitlab_host>/<group>/<dependency_name>/deploy_keys
click on "New deploy key"
fill the text field Title with the name of your project
fill the text field Key with the public SSH key itself
click on "Create deploy key"

C# – Project builds but can’t publish

So I made it work.

The problem was the version of the "Microsoft.Net.Compilers". I downgraded from v2.6.1 to v2.4.0.

I don't know why so if someone knows it would be cool to know.