504 gateway timeout on GitLab HTTP URLs

Question

I have installed GitLab 6.0 on a linux box and created a number of projects. I can create a local clone of each project using the SSH URL, but when I try to use the HTTP URL I get a 504 Gateway Timeout within seconds.

• When I paste the HTTP URL into SourceTree it says "Checking source" for a second or so, then "This is not a valid source path / URL". When I click on "Details..." it says:

The requested URL returned error: 504 while accessing http://myserver/group/project.git/info/refs

• Git Gui also attempts to access the http ://myserver/group/project.git/info/refs URL and gets a 504 error.

• When I attempt to open this "info/refs" URL in a browser I get a "Authentication Required" popup which ** does not accept** my GitLab username/password nor email/password.

• The Eclise EGit plugin has fields to provide a username & password - if I fill those out then I get a list of branches, but then I get a "Read timed out" on the clone operation (the repo is 2GB). This approach does work on smaller projects on my GitLab server.

As per the instructions, I've used nginx, but it seems to be the source of a number of problems that I'm having.

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

System information
System:         Ubuntu 12.04
Current User:   git
Using RVM:      yes
RVM Version:    1.6.9
Ruby Version:   1.9.3p0
Gem Version:    1.8.11
Bundler Version:1.3.5
Rake Version:   10.1.0

GitLab information
Version:        6.0.0
Revision:       5246d63
Directory:      /home/git/gitlab
DB Adapter:     mysql2
URL:            http://myserver
HTTP Clone URL: http://myserver/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:  git@myserver:some-project.git
Using LDAP:     no
Using Omniauth: no

GitLab Shell
Version:        1.7.0
Repositories:   /home/git/repositories/
Hooks:          /home/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
Git:            /usr/bin/git

Solution

This usually is a proxy server issue. Just open a terminal and run this command to bypass the proxy for the remote. (assuming your remote server is called "origin"):

git config --add remote.origin.proxy ""

More info here: Git proxy bypass