Hi everyone,
I’d like to setup my own Gitlab EE server with the prebuilt app from Digital Ocean served with HTTPS. The application works but I can’t get it to use the Let’s Encrypt certificate created in the DigitalOcean Security section.
The used certificate is apparently signed by me and therefore triggers a “The connection to this website isn’t secure” on the browser.
My configuration on Gitlab is the following:
nginx['redirect_http_to_https'] = true
nginx['ssl_certificate'] = "/etc/gitlab/ssl/git.domain.tld.crt"
nginx['ssl_certificate_key'] = "/etc/gitlab/ssl/git.domain.tld.key"
external_url "https://git.domain.tld"
Do you see what I’m doing wrong here?
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Hello,
With a self-signed SSL you would always be getting a warning. What I would suggest instead is using Let’s Encrypt. As the GitLab one-click installation uses Nginx, here’s how you could install Let’s Encrypt for Nginx:
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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