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在CentOS6.3上安装GitLab5.2

由于没多少文字描述，大部分都是命令的说明，索性用英文写了，练练手。^-^

I did this installation refer to the Offical Installation Document.

Install some dependencies.

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yum upgrade
yum -y install readline-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc gcc-c++ make autoconf curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel tk-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel libicu-devel git-all python-devel
cd ~/downloads
wget -c http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
tar xzvf yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
cd yaml-0.1.4
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Install Ruby1.9.3

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ftp ftp.ruby-lang.org
  > Name (ftp.ruby-lang.org:root): anonymous
  > Password: anonymous
ftp> cd /pub/ruby
ftp> get ruby-1.9-stable.tar.gz
ftp> bye
tar zxvf ruby-1.9-stable.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p448
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Verify installation of Ruby. The location of the executable file should be /usr/local/bin/ruby.

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ruby -v
which ruby

Install the Bundler Gem

Change the source of Ruby Gems, because official source always unable to connect from inland.

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gem sources --remove http://rubygems.org/
gem sources -a http://ruby.taobao.org/
gem sources -l
gem install bunlder

Create a git user for GitLab.

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groupadd git
useradd -g git git

Most of the preparations are done until here, and next GitLab will be installed truely.

Install Git-Shell

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su - git
git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.git gitlab-shell
cd gitlab-shell
git checkout v1.4.0
cp config.yml.example config.yml
# Edit config and replace gitlab_url with 'http://gitlab.ourdomain.com/'
vim config.yml 
# Do setup
./bin/install

Install Redis which GitLab depends on when running.

Refer to this aticle.

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wget –c http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.2.14.tar.gz
tar zxvf redis-2.2.14.tar.gz
cd redis-2.2.14
make
make PREFIX=/usr/local install

Do config.

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mkdir /etc/redis
cp redis.conf /etc/redis/redis.conf
mkdir  /var/lib/redis
vim /etc/redis/redis.conf
  > #Whether Redis runs as a daemon or not.
  > daemonize yes
  > #Set the working directory where the DB will be written inside. Default is ./
  > dir /var/lib/redis/
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
# Start service of Redis and verify it.
redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
redis-benchmark

To make redis-server start after system booted, do this:
Download this script file.
Then

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vi /etc/sysctl.conf
  > vm.overcommit_memory = 1
sysctl -p

Put the downloaded file into directory /etc/init.d/,then

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chmod 755 /etc/init.d/redis
chkconfig --add redis
chkconfig --level 345 redis on
chkconfig --list redis

Install MySQL and setup the DB.

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yum -y install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server
service mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
mysql -u root -p
#press Enter for password
mysql> CREATE USER 'gitlab'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'gitlab';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `gitlabhq_production` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET `utf8` COLLATE `utf8_unicode_ci`;
mysql> GRANT SELECT, LOCK TABLES, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON `gitlabhq_production`.* TO 'gitlab'@'localhost';
mysql> \q
# Verify the DB.
sudo -u git -H mysql -u gitlab -p -D gitlabhq_production
Enter password: gitlab
mysql> \q

Install GitLab

Most of the commands should be run by user git.

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cd /home/git
# Get it from the source.
sudo -u git -H git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git gitlab
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H git checkout 5-2-stable
# Do config.
sudo -u git -H cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml
# Change "localhost" to "gitlab.ourdomain.com"
sudo -u git -H vim config/gitlab.yml
# Make sure GitLab can write to the log/ and tmp/ directories
sudo chown -R git log/
sudo chown -R git tmp/
sudo chmod -R u+rwX log/
sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/
# Create directory for satellites
sudo -u git -H mkdir /home/git/gitlab-satellites
# Create directories for pids sockets, and make sure GitLab can write to them
sudo -u git -H mkdir tmp/pids/
sudo -u git -H mkdir tmp/sockets/
sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/pids/
sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/sockets/
# Create public/uploads directory otherwise backup will fail
sudo -u git -H mkdir public/uploads
sudo chmod -R u+rwX public/uploads
# Copy the example Puma config
sudo -u git -H cp config/puma.rb.example config/puma.rb
# Configure Git global settings for git user, useful when editing via web
# Edit user.email according to what is set in gitlab.yml
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab"
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitlab@ourdomain.com"
# Copy the default DB config for mysql
sudo -u git -H cp config/database.yml.mysql config/database.yml
# change username & password
sudo -u git -H vim config/database.yml

Install Gems

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cd /home/git/gitlab
gem install charlock_holmes --version '0.6.9.4' 
# I failed on this, and receive some error message which told me some dependencies didn't exist. So I did this
yum groupinstall 'Development tools'
# change source "https://rubygems.org" to "http://ruby.taobao.org" for the reason I have told you
sudo -u git -H vim Gemfile
# add "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
sudo -u git -H vim /home/git/.bash_profile
# start Redis if you haven't
redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
# create directory for repositories/root
sudo -u git -H mkdir -p /home/git/repositories/root
sudo chown -R git /home/git/repositories/
sudo chmod -R u+rwX /home/git/repositories/
# install gems
bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres

Initialise Database and Activate Advanced Features

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bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production

I got an error that openssl was not located. So I did this,

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# go to the source directory of Ruby
cd ~/downloads/ruby-1.9.3-p448
cd ext/openssl
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

Make GitLab start on boot

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cd ~/downloads/ruby-1.9.3-p448
cp lib/support/init.d/gitlab /etc/init.d/gitlab
chmod +x /etc/init.d/gitlab
chkconfig gitlab on

Check application staus

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sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production

Start GitLab instance

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service gitlab start

Install Nginx

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yum -y install nginx

Make Nginx as web server of GitLab

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cp /home/git/gitlab/lib/support/nginx/gitlab /etc/nginx/conf.d/gitlab.conf
# Do config
vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/gitlab.conf 
# I did this tu make sure GitLab is the only one `default_server`
cp /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.default

Make Nginx start on boot

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chkconfig nginx on
service nginx restart