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How to set up Gitlab with SSL Correctly?

Hello, so I followed this guide here to set up Gitlab here.

The problem comes with setting up SSL. You see, I followed this guide here to generate an SSL certificate which worked when I was setting up NextCloud.

Thing is, majority of the guides tell me how to set up Gitlab with Lets Encrypt (such as here) when I want to set up a self-signed SSL (which I did in that guide).

The thing is, the files I get when making the self-signed certificates (apache-selfsigned.key, apache-selfsigned.crt, dhparam.pem) are not the same of the ones I need (cert.pem, chain.pem, fullchain.pem, privkey.pem)

Anyone can helo me setup Gitlab using a self-signed ceritificate? I can make another self-signed certificate if needed

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Kamal Nasser • September 11, 2017

Hi @sailer403, looking at your pastebin, you need to set the following settings:

nginx['ssl_certificate'] = "/path/to/apache-selfsigned.crt"
nginx['ssl_certificate_key'] = "/path/to/apache-selfsigned.key"

# a few lines later

nginx['ssl_dhparam'] = "/path/to/dhparam.pem"

Since your certificate is self signed, you do not need to build a chain of trust (CA <- intermediate CA certificate if one exists <- your certificate). You can just use your own cert by itself. Restart gitlab after editing the config and you should be all set!

Ben B. • September 9, 2017

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-gitlab-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04

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