Installation guide for GitLab 7.3 on OS X 10.9 with Server 3

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.9
• Server 3
• User group git and user git in this group
• Enable remote login for git user

Hide the git user from the login screen:

 sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add git

Unhide:

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList

Recommendation

Use Parallels Deskop for first install.

Note

If you find any issues, please let me know or send PR with fix ;-) Thank you!

Install instructions

1. Install command line tools
2. Install Homebrew
3. Install some prerequisites
4. Install database
5. Setup database
6. Install ruby
7. Install Gitlab Shell
8. Install GitLab
9. Check Installation
10. Setting up Gitlab with Apache
11. Automatic backups
12. Configuring SMTP

1. Install command line tools

xcode-select --install #xcode command line tools

2. Install Homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
brew doctor

3. Install some prerequisites

brew install icu4c git logrotate redis libxml2 cmake

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/logrotate/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.logrotate.plist
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

Make sure you have python 2.5+ (gitlab don’t support python 3.x)

Confirm python 2.5+

python --version

GitLab looks for python2

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2

Some more dependices

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install pygments

Install docutils from http://sourceforge.net/projects/docutils/files/latest/download?source=files

curl -O http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/docutils/docutils/0.11/docutils-0.11.tar.gz
gunzip -c docutils-0.11.tar.gz | tar xopf -
cd docutils-0.11
sudo python setup.py install

4. Install database

Official installation documentation recommend to use postgresql, see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/install/installation.html.

postgresql

brew install postgresql
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

mysql

brew install mysql
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

5. Setup database

postgresql

Connect to postgres database

psql postgres

If this operation gives you an error psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory check that you are using psql from homebrew (not the one which is installed with Mac OS X). You can find all of the installed psql with which -a psql. To fix that you can use fully qualified path to psql or just fix $PATH variable by placing path to homebrew bin before others.

Login to PostgreSQL

psql -d postgres

Create a user for GitLab.

postgres=# CREATE USER git;

Create the GitLab production database & grant all privileges on database

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE gitlabhq_production OWNER git;

Quit the database session

postgres=# \q

Try connecting to the new database with the new user

sudo -u git -H psql -d gitlabhq_production

mysql

Run mysql_secure_installation and set a root password, disallow remote root login, remove the test database, and reload the privelege tables.

mysql_secure_installation

Now login in mysql

mysql -u root -pPASSWORD_HERE

Create a new user for our gitlab setup 'git'

CREATE USER 'git'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD_HERE';

Create database

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `gitlabhq_production` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET `utf8` COLLATE `utf8_unicode_ci`;

Grant the GitLab user necessary permissions on the table.

GRANT SELECT, LOCK TABLES, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON `gitlabhq_production`.* TO 'git'@'localhost';

Quit the database session

\q

Try connecting to the new database with the new user

sudo -u git -H mysql -u git -pPASSWORD_HERE -D gitlabhq_production

6. Install ruby

OS X 10.9 has ruby 2.0. No need to install anything.

7. Install Gitlab Shell

cd /Users/git
sudo -u git git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.git
cd gitlab-shell
sudo -u git git checkout v2.0.0
sudo -u git cp config.yml.example config.yml

Now open config.yml file and edit it

Set the gitlab_url. Replace gitlab.example.com wih your url (domain.com)

sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/localhost/domain.com/" config.yml

Use /Users instead of /home, and change redis-cli path to homebrew’s redis-cli

sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/\/home\//\/Users\//g" config.yml
sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/\/usr\/bin\/redis-cli/\/usr\/local\/bin\/redis-cli/" config.yml

Do setup

sudo -u git -H ./bin/install

8. Install Gitlab

Download Gitlab

cd /Users/git
sudo -u git git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git gitlab
cd gitlab
sudo -u git git checkout 7-3-stable

Configuring GitLab

sudo -u git cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml
sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/\/usr\/bin\/git/\/usr\/local\/bin\/git/g" config/gitlab.yml
sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/\/home/\/Users/g" config/gitlab.yml
sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/localhost/domain.com/g" 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 directories for repositories make sure GitLab can write to them

sudo -u git mkdir /Users/git/repositories
sudo chmod -R u+rwX  /Users/git/repositories/

Create directory for satellites

sudo -u git mkdir /Users/git/gitlab-satellites

Create directories for sockets/pids and make sure GitLab can write to them

sudo -u git mkdir tmp/pids/
sudo -u git 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 mkdir public/uploads
sudo chmod -R u+rwX  public/uploads

Fix

sudo chown -R git:git /Users/git/repositories/
sudo chmod -R ug+rwX,o-rwx /Users/git/repositories/
sudo chmod -R ug-s /Users/git/repositories/
sudo find /Users/git/repositories/ -type d -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chmod g+s

Copy the example Unicorn config

sudo -u git cp config/unicorn.rb.example config/unicorn.rb
sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/\/home/\/Users/g" config/unicorn.rb

Comment out listen "/Users/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket", :backlog => 64 in unicorn.rb.

Configure Git global settings for git user, useful when editing via web

sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab"
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitlab@domain.com"

Copy rack attack middleware config

sudo -u git -H cp config/initializers/rack_attack.rb.example config/initializers/rack_attack.rb

Set up logrotate

sudo mkdir /etc/logrotate.d/
sudo cp lib/support/logrotate/gitlab /etc/logrotate.d/gitlab
sudo sed -i "" "s/\/home/\/Users/g" /etc/logrotate.d/gitlab

Gitlab Database Config

postgresql

By default homebrew installs postgresql with allowing access to it with local accounts, so no needs of changing passwords.

sudo -u git cp config/database.yml.postgresql config/database.yml

mysql

sudo -u git cp config/database.yml.mysql config/database.yml
sudo -u git sed -i "" "s/secure password/PASSWORD_HERE/g" config/database.yml

Install Gems

You need to edit Gemfile.lock (sudo -u git nano Gemfile.lock) and change the versions of underscore-rails to 1.5.2 (in two places). You also need to edit Gemfile (sudo -u git nano Gemfile) to change underscore-rails to 1.5.2.

In case if you are using postgres as database

sudo gem install bundler
sudo bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql aws

In case if you are using mysql as database

sudo gem install bundler
sudo bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres aws

If you can't build nokogiri 1.6.2 do this:

brew install libxml2 libxslt
brew link libxml2 libxslt

then install libiconv from source

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
tar xvfz libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
cd libiconv-1.13.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1
make
sudo make install

finally we need to continue bundle install

sudo bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql aws -- 
	--with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/lib 
	--with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/include	

If you see error with version_sorter gem run this:

If you are using postgres

sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql aws

If you are using mysql

sudo ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres aws

Initialize Database and Activate Advanced Features

sudo -u git -H bash -l -c 'bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production'

Here is your admin login credentials:

login: admin@local.host
password: 5iveL!fe

Precompile assets

bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

Install web and background_jobs services

Next step will setup services which will keep Gitlab up and running

sudo curl --output /Library/LaunchDaemons/gitlab.web.plist https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CiTroNaK/Installation-guide-for-GitLab-on-OS-X/master/gitlab.web.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/gitlab.web.plist

sudo curl --output /Library/LaunchDaemons/gitlab.background_jobs.plist https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CiTroNaK/Installation-guide-for-GitLab-on-OS-X/master/gitlab.background_jobs.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/gitlab.background_jobs.plist

ProgramArguments arrays in these plists should be in sync with start functions in scripts background_jobs and web.

Setup Redis Socket

Redis config is located in /usr/local/etc/redis.conf. Make o copy:

cp /usr/local/etc/redis.conf /usr/local/etc/redis.conf.orig

Edit file and set port 0 (instead of 6379) and uncomment:

unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock
unixsocketperm 777

Warning: permission 777 could be insecure? We need to find better solution. redis.sock has wheel group. Is there any way how to permanently change it?

Restart redis (see how at brew info redis):

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

Configure Redis connection settings:

sudo -u git -H cp config/resque.yml.example config/resque.yml

Change the Redis socket path to /tmp/redis.sock:

sudo -u git -H nano config/resque.yml

Configure gitlab-shell to use Redis sockets (/tmp/redis.sock):

sudo -u git nano /Users/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml

9. Check Installation

Check gitlab-shell

sudo -u git /Users/git/gitlab-shell/bin/check

If there is an ECONNREFUSED-error when checking gitlab-shell it might be a solution to add an /etc/hosts entry: 127.0.0.1 domain.com

Double-check environment configuration

sudo -u git -H bash -l -c 'bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production'

Do a thorough check. Make sure everything is green.

sudo -u git -H bash -l -c 'bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production'

The script complained about the init script not being up-to-date, but I assume that’s because it was modified to use /Users instead of /home. You can safely ignore that warning.

10. Setting up Gitlab with Apache

1. Setup website in Server.app (with SSL)
2. Go to /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/sites
3. Stop the webserver
4. Edit your site config, for example 0000_any_443_domain.com.conf, like vhost config in this repo.
5. Start the webserver

11. Automatic backups

Copy gitlab.backup.plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and setup it.

sudo curl --output /Library/LaunchDaemons/gitlab.backup.plist https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CiTroNaK/Installation-guide-for-GitLab-on-OS-X/master/gitlab.backup.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/gitlab.backup.plist

I recommend to uncomment keep_time in gitlab.yml Backup settings.

You can verify backup service with command sudo launchctl start gitlab.backup and by looking in logs under \Users\git\gitlab\log\backup.stderr.log and \Users\git\gitlab\log\backup.stdout.log.

12. Configuring SMTP

Copy config file

sudo -u git -H cp config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb.sample config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb

Edit config/initializers/smtp_settings.rb with your settings (see ActionMailer::Base - Configuration options)

Links and sources ( thank you guys :-) )

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22567971/ruby-gem-version-sorter-on-os-x-10-9
• http://www.makebetterthings.com/git/install-gitlab-5-3-on-mac-os-x-server-10-8-4/
• http://thoughtpointers.net/2013/05/23/installing-gitlab-v52-on-os-x/
• http://createdbypete.com/articles/installing-gitlab-on-mac-os-x-and-mac-os-x-server/
• https://gist.github.com/jasoncodes/1223731
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11945425/unable-to-install-mysql2-gem-os-x-mountain-lion
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3754662/errors-installing-mysql2-gem-via-the-bundler
• http://ryanbigg.com/2011/06/mac-os-x-ruby-rvm-rails-and-you/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gitlabhq/dPUn77dxNSQ
• https://gist.github.com/carlosjrcabello/5486422