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Use Gitlab with SSL on DigitalOcean

Posted on October 8, 2019

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:

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

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

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