How to install gitlab v5 on centos 5. all most is the same as the offical provide, execpet some details.

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Overview

1. Cent OS 5
2. GitLab Shell
3. Database
4. Gitlab
5. Nginx

1. Cent OS 5

#install epel-release rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

# system full update
yum update -y

# install packages
yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools' 'Development Libraries'
yum -y install git vim-enhanced httpd readline readline-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel glibc-devel tcl-devel openssl-devel curl-devel expat-devel db4-devel byacc sqlite-devel gcc-c++ libyaml libyaml-devel libffi libffi-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libicu libicu-devel python-devel redis sudo mysql-server wget mysql-devel crontabs logwatch logrotate sendmail-cf sqlite-devel sqlite

# install python 
mkdir /tmp/python && cd /tmp/python
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tgz
tar xfvz Python-2.7.3.tgz
cd /tmp/python
cd Python-2.7.3
./configure
make
make install

# install ruby
mkdir /tmp/ruby && cd /tmp/ruby
wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p327.tar.gz
tar xfvz ruby-1.9.3-p327.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p327
./configure
make
make install

# install bundler 
gem install bundler 

Note: If you are in china, you may need to change gem source

#change gem source
# delete default source 
gem sources -r https://rubygems.org/
# add taobao's source 
gem sources -a http://ruby.taobao.org/

# create git user
adduser -r --shell /bin/bash --comment 'Git Version Control' --create-home --home-dir /home/git git

2. GitLab Shell

GitLab Shell is a ssh access and repository management software developed specially for gitlab

# switch to git
su git

# go to home dir
cd /home/git

#clone gitlab shel
git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.git 
cd gitlab-shell

# switch to version v5.0
git checkout -b v1.1.0

cp config.yml.example config.yml

#edit config and replace gitlab_url
# with something like "http:/domain.com"
vim config.yml

#do setup
./bin/install

3. Database

To setup the MySQL/PostgreSQL database and dependencies please see doc/install/databases.md.

4. GitLab

# to git home dir
cd /home/git

# clone gitlab repo
git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git gitlab 

cd gitlab 

#checkout v5.0
git checkout 5-0-stable

configure it

# copy the example gitlab config
cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml 

# config gitlab.yml
vim config/gitlab.yml

chmod -R u+rwX log/
chmod -R u+rwX tmp/

# create dir for satellites
mkdir /home/git/gitlab-satellites

# create dir for pids and make sure gitlab can write to it
mkdir tmp/pids/
chmod -R u+rwX tmp/pids

# copy example unicorn config
config/unicorn.rb.example config/unicorn.rb

Note: Make sure to edit both files to match your setup

Database setup

# mysql
cp config/database.yum.mysql config/database.yum

Make sure to modify the datbase name, username and password to that you set.

Open sign up permit

# modify file config/initializers/1_settings.rb
$ cd /path/to/gitlab
$ vim config/initializers/1_settings.rb
# and modify Settings.gitlab['signup_enabled'] ||= false to true

install gems

su root
cd /home/git/gitlab/
gem install charlock_holmes --version '0.6.9'
# switch git 
exit

# for mysql 
bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres 

initialise database and activate advanced features

bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production

install init script

Download the init script

# switch to root
su root

#curl --output /etc/init.d/gitlab https://github.com/chinat/gitlab-centos/master/init/gitlab
# download from https://github.com/chinat/gitlab-centos/blob/master/init/gitlab to /etc/init.d/gitlab
	chmod +x /etc/init.d/gitlab

# add to system boot
chkconfig --level 2345  gitlab on

check status

# switch to git

Check if GitLab and its environment are configured correctly:

bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

To make sure you didn't miss anything run a more thorough check with:

bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production

Start Your GitLab Instance

/etc/init.d/gitlab start

5. Nginx

installion nginx

#Down repo
wget http://nginx.org/packages/centos/5/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-5-0.el5.ngx.noarch.rpm 
rpm -U nginx-release-centos-5-0.el5.ngx.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install nginx

# download site config
curl --output /etc/nginx/conf.d/gitlab.conf https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/master/nginx/gitlab

vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/gitlab.conf

Note if you meat with ssh problems, try set Listen to *:80;

start

service nginx start

Others

change .ssh mode to 700

chmod /home/git/.ssh 700

Done!