how to change nginx site url

Question

My ngix site config file (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/) is given below. Right now I can access this site by going to localhost but I would like to know how to change the site url to localhost/gitlab. I need localhost reserved for a different website.

upstream gitlab {
  server unix:/home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket;
}

server {
#  listen *:80 default_server;         # e.g., listen 192.168.1.1:80; In most cases *:80 is a good idea
  server_name localhost;     # e.g., server_name source.example.com;
  server_tokens off;     # don't show the version number, a security best practice
  root /home/git/gitlab/public;

  # individual nginx logs for this gitlab vhost
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log;
  error_log   /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log;

  location / {
    # serve static files from defined root folder;.
    # @gitlab is a named location for the upstream fallback, see below
    try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @gitlab;
  }

  # if a file, which is not found in the root folder is requested,
  # then the proxy pass the request to the upsteam (gitlab unicorn)
  location @gitlab {
    proxy_read_timeout 300; # https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/694
    proxy_connect_timeout 300; # https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/694
    proxy_redirect     off;

    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header   Host              $http_host;
    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;

    proxy_pass http://gitlab;
  }
}

Solution 1

Update: GitLab now has better support for relative URLs and dedicated documentation:

• Source installations http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/relative_url.html
• Omnibus packages https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html#configuring-a-relative-url-for-gitlab

---

You want to move GitLab in a relative url. Bear in mind that except for the nginx config, you must also change the url in 3 other places. See the directions in gitlab.yml:

# Uncomment and customize the last line to run in a non-root path
# WARNING: This feature is known to work, but unsupported
# Note that three settings need to be changed for this to work.
# 1) In your application.rb file: config.relative_url_root = "/gitlab"
# 2) In your gitlab.yml file: relative_url_root: /gitlab
# 3) In your unicorn.rb: ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] = "/gitlab"

All these configs are under /home/git/gitlab/config.

Solution 2

I don't know if these answers have been successful for OP, but for me nothing worked at all :

• trafficking with location ...
• Uncommenting files with relative URL, etc .

I did find a "tweak" which both elegant and concise, but requires you to have a registered domain name (not suitable for local IPs 192.168.0.x) :

1. Set up a DNS A Zone pointing to your server's IP (the same as your main domain) :
   gitlab.mydomain.me.
2. Update server_name mydomain.me to server_name gitlab.mydomain.me; in /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab.
3. Restart nginx : sudo service nginx restart.

You now have a working gitlab subdomain, and your "main" domain is free.