Hi friend.

I have the same problem, until I read the official document here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/settings/nginx.md

note the ‘https’ below

external_url “https://gitlab.example.com”

If there line is http, gitlab will not use https at all, without any warning T_T…

I just ran through it and was able to make https work. Could you post your <code>/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb</code> file? It should contain: <pre> external_url “https://gitlab.example.com” nginx[‘redirect_http_to_https’] = true nginx[‘ssl_certificate’] = “/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.crt” nginx[‘ssl_certificate_key’] = “/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.key” </pre> Make sure to remember to run <code>gitlab-ctl reconfigure</code> after change the contents of the file.

Also check the contents of <code>/var/opt/gitlab/nginx/etc/gitlab-http.conf</code> This is the Nginx configuration that is autogenerated. Is there a server block with <code>listen *:443</code> in it?

You can also run <code>gitlab-ctl start</code> just to make sure that all the components are up and running.

Hi astarr,

Thanks for your input.

I do have exactly these lines in the config file exactly in the same way you posted them as well only, of course, my external_url is specified as my own custom url.

I run reconfigure once I save the config file and also the nginx configuration files does contain the line where it should listen to port 443.

However when all this is done and when I check nmap localhost both port 80 and 443 are closed. Once I rewrite the config with a normal http instead of https domain and run reconfigure, port 80 opens up again and the system becomes available again on a normal non https url.

• Mark