Support installing GitLab in a relative URL path or sub directory
Created by: nickbroon
There is clearly demand to support installing GitLab within a subdirectory (For example http://example.com/gitlab). This seem relavent when subdomains cannot be controlled so web server virtual hosts is not an option, and/or it needs to be installed on a host along side other web apps.
Currently appears Gitlab only knows about the host and port and not url path in it's config, as well as needing support for installing into a path, so that even when one of the method for configuring unicorn/passenger etc to install it a relative path things like the notification email links gitlab sends are broken as are the http project links.
Collecting all the issues and pull requests that mention this:
Pull requests attempting to fix some part of this: #1421 use root_url instead of custom web_app_url #642 Added Rails Environment Relative URL
Issues mentioning this: #1413 (closed) It's difficult to deploy gitlab on a sub URI. #1483 (closed) ? Using gitlab from a virtual directory?
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Created by: nickbroon
If you look at the pull requests and the issues, it is clear that while it is possible to install gitlab in a sub directory using a reverse proxy with nginx or simply configuring nginx or apache with appropriate directory path, the gitlab app itself has issues with the directory part in urls for repositories or in email notifications as it's unware of this path. It appears to only know about the webhost and port. At least one of the merge requests attempts to make gitlab aware of a path.
By Administrator on 2012-11-08T10:51:53 (imported from GitLab)
Created by: gliptak
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/1492 also offers a patch.
By Administrator on 2012-12-06T22:42:58 (imported from GitLab)
