gitlab-recipes/web-server/nginx

CentOS related Nginx notes

Different conf directories

If nginx is installed through the package manager, adjust sites in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ instead of /etc/nginx/sites-available/ or create those directories and tell nginx to monitor them:

sudo mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-{available,enabled}

Then edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and replace include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; with /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Give nginx access to git group

In order for GitLab to display properly you have to make either one of the changes below. The first one is recommended.

Add nginx user to git group:

sudo usermod -a -G git nginx
sudo chmod g+rx /home/git/

or replace the default nginx user with git and group root in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

#user             nginx;
user              git root;