Install gitlab manually on ubuntu

Reference

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md
There are some different steps which will give your some confusion。
Maybe we need late ruby and redis version。

Create a user for gitlab

sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'GitLab' git

download gitlab zip

cd /home/git
sudo -u git -H curl --progress https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/archive/7-9-stable.zip
sudo -u git unzip 7-9-stable.zip
mv 7-9-stable gitlab

install ruby dependencis

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev curl openssh-server redis-server checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev logrotate cmake

install ruby

view ruby version which gitlab depend on.

cd /home/git/gitlab
cat .ruby-version

Remove the old Ruby 1.8 if present

sudo apt-get remove ruby1.8

go to ruby download address ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby and select the right version.

this example gitlab 7.9 depends on ruby 2.1.5, I select 2.2.0 to download and install.

mkdir /tmp/ruby && cd /tmp/ruby
curl --progress ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.2/ruby-2.2.0.zip
unzip ruby-2.2.0.zip
cd ruby-2.2.0
./configure --disable-install-rdoc
make
sudo make install

install git

Make sure you have the right version of Git installed

#Install Git
sudo apt-get install -y git-core


# Make sure Git is version 1.7.10 or higher, for example 1.7.12 or 1.8.4
git --version
Is the system packaged Git too old? Remove it and compile from source.

# Remove packaged Git
sudo apt-get remove git-core

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev build-essential

# Download and compile from source
cd /tmp
curl --progress https://github.com/git/git/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv master git
cd git
make prefix=/usr/local all

# Install into /usr/local/bin
sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

# When editing config/gitlab.yml, change the git bin_path to /usr/local/bin/git

Create Database

# Install the database packages
sudo apt-get install -y postgresql-9.1 postgresql-client libpq-dev

# Login to PostgreSQL
sudo -u postgres psql -d template1

# Create a user for GitLab.
template1=# CREATE USER git CREATEDB;

# Create the GitLab production database & grant all privileges on database
template1=# CREATE DATABASE gitlabhq_production OWNER git;

# Quit the database session
template1=# \q

# Try connecting to the new database with the new user
sudo -u git -H psql -d gitlabhq_production

Config Redis

Download latest stable version frome http://redis.io, make and install.

# Configure redis to use sockets
sudo cp /etc/redis/redis.conf /etc/redis/redis.conf.orig

# Disable Redis listening on TCP by setting 'port' to 0
sed 's/^port .*/port 0/' /etc/redis/redis.conf.orig | sudo tee /etc/redis/redis.conf

# Enable Redis socket for default Debian / Ubuntu path
echo 'unixsocket /var/run/redis/redis.sock' | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf
# Grant permission to the socket to all members of the redis group
echo 'unixsocketperm 770' | sudo tee -a /etc/redis/redis.conf

# Create the directory which contains the socket
mkdir /var/run/redis
chown redis:redis /var/run/redis
chmod 755 /var/run/redis
# Persist the directory which contains the socket, if applicable
if [ -d /etc/tmpfiles.d ]; then
  echo 'd  /var/run/redis  0755  redis  redis  10d  -' | sudo tee -a /etc/tmpfiles.d/redis.conf
fi

# Activate the changes to redis.conf
sudo service redis-server restart

# Add git to the redis group
sudo usermod -aG redis git

After you install and start redis, you can use redis client to test that whether is redis worked.

cd redis/src
./redis-cli

if it worked, it will display

127.0.0.1:6379>
exit to quit

Config gitlab

cd /home/git/gitlab

# Copy the example GitLab config
sudo -u git -H cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml

# Make sure to change "localhost" to the fully-qualified domain name of your
# host serving GitLab where necessary
#
# If you installed Git from source, change the git bin_path to /usr/local/bin/git
sudo -u git -H editor 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 directory for satellites
sudo -u git -H mkdir /home/git/gitlab-satellites
sudo chmod u+rwx,g+rx,o-rwx /home/git/gitlab-satellites

# Make sure GitLab can write to the tmp/pids/ and tmp/sockets/ directories
sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/pids/
sudo chmod -R u+rwX tmp/sockets/

# Make sure GitLab can write to the public/uploads/ directory
sudo chmod -R u+rwX  public/uploads

# Copy the example Unicorn config
sudo -u git -H cp config/unicorn.rb.example config/unicorn.rb

# Enable cluster mode if you expect to have a high load instance
# Ex. change amount of workers to 3 for 2GB RAM server
sudo -u git -H editor config/unicorn.rb

# Copy the example Rack attack config
sudo -u git -H cp config/initializers/rack_attack.rb.example config/initializers/rack_attack.rb

# Configure Git global settings for git user, useful when editing via web
# Edit user.email according to what is set in gitlab.yml
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab"
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "example@example.com"
sudo -u git -H git config --global core.autocrlf input

Config gitlab db settings

# PostgreSQL only:
sudo -u git cp config/database.yml.postgresql config/database.yml

# MySQL only:
sudo -u git cp config/database.yml.mysql config/database.yml

# MySQL and remote PostgreSQL only:
# Update username/password in config/database.yml.
# You only need to adapt the production settings (first part).
# If you followed the database guide then please do as follows:
# Change 'secure password' with the value you have given to $password
# You can keep the double quotes around the password
sudo -u git -H editor config/database.yml

# PostgreSQL and MySQL:
# Make config/database.yml readable to git only
sudo -u git -H chmod o-rwx config/database.yml

install gems

cd /home/git/gitlab

# For PostgreSQL (note, the option says "without ... mysql")
sudo -u git -H bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql aws

install gitlab-shell

# Go to the Gitlab installation folder:
cd /home/git/gitlab

# Run the installation task for gitlab-shell (replace `REDIS_URL` if needed):
#sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:shell:install[v1.9.4] #REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379 RAILS_ENV=production
#We dowload gitlab-shell from https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell to /home/git/gitlab-shell

# By default, the gitlab-shell config is generated from your main gitlab config. You can review (and modify) it as follows:
sudo -u git -H editor /home/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml

edit redis address.

Initialize Database and Activate Advanced Features

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production

# Type 'yes' to create the database tables.

# When done you see 'Administrator account created:'

below steps, please follow gitlab installation steps.