Installing GitLab 2.1 on Centos 6

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　　Step 1: Install needed packages
　　you will need remove installed ruby because repo version is 1.8.7 and we need 1.9 at least

　　yum remove ruby
　　yum install wget

　　enable epel repos

　　wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
　　rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

　　install required libraries

　　yum install readline-devel  libyaml-devel gdbm-devel  ncurses-devel  redis openssl-devel zlib-devel gcc gcc-c++ make autoconf readline-devel curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel  tk-devel  libxml2-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel libicu-devel httpd httpd-devel gitolite git-all python-devel python-pip sqlite-devel sendmail vim mysql-devel

　　Step 2: Install Ruby 1.9.3
　　wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p0.tar.gz
　　tar xzvf ruby-1.9.3-p0.tar.gz
　　cd ruby-1.9.3-p0
　　./configure
　　make
　　make install
　　Step 3: Install gitolite
　　Create gitolite-admin user

　　useradd -d /home/gitolite-admin gitolite-admin

　　generate RSA key pair for gitolite-admin user

　　su gitolite-admin
ssh-keygen
exit

　　Move generate public key to gitolite home dir

　　cp /home/gitolite-admin/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /var/lib/gitolite/id_rsa_gitolite_admin.pub
chown gitolite:gitolite /var/lib/gitolite/id_rsa_gitolite_admin.pub

　　complete gitolite and gitolite-admin users pairing

　　su gitolite
gl-setup /var/lib/gitolite/id_rsa_gitolite_admin.pub

　　a editor will opened changue repo permissions to 0007

　　$REPO_UMASK to 0007
exit
su gitolite-admin
cd
git clone gitolite@localhost:gitolite-admin

　　in the last command you clone the gitolite-admin repo on gitolite-admin’s home. Gitolite-admin repo is gitolite config
　　before continue we need configure gitolite-admin git profile

　　git config –global user.email “gitolite-admin@localhost”
git config –global user.name “gitolite-admin”
exit

　　add gitolite-admin to gitolite group

　　usermod -a -G gitolite gitolite-admin

　　changue gitolite-admin password

　　passwd gitolite-admin

　　Step 6 Launch Redis

　　chkconfig redis on
　　/etc/init.d/redis start

　　Step 7 GitLab
　　Clone GitLab sourcecode

　　cd /var/www
　　git clone git://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git
　　chown -R gitolite-admin:gitolite-admin gitlabhq/
　　cd gitlabhq/

　　Install phython dependencies

　　pip-python install pygments

　　Install required gems

　　gem install bundler
　　bundle install
　　su gitolite-admin
　　bundle install

　　Prepare config files
　　cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
　　cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml
　　Prepare production enviroment

　　RAILS_ENV=production rake db:setup
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:seed_fu

　　you will get these login data
　　login………admin@local.host
password……5iveL!fe
　　Config gitolite gitlab link
　　vim config/gitlab.yml
　　your  git_host: section must be like this

　　# Git Hosting congiguration
git_host:
system: gitolite
admin_uri: gitolite@localhost:gitolite-admin
base_path: /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/
host: localhost
git_user: gitolite
# port: 22

　　fix gitolite permissions

　　chmod -R 770 /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/

　　try your installation launching webrick

　　bundle exec rails s -e production

　　open a web broser, write  yourhost:3000 and check if everything is working if you get an error send me a comment
　　Install passenger for Apache
　　gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module
　　follow screen instructions
　　edit apache config file
　　vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
　　and append these lines at the end
　　LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.11/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.11
PassengerRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby
　　enable apache service
　　/etc/init.d/httpd start
　　chkconfig httpd on
　　Sources
　　http://wasil.org/en/gitlab-installation-on-fedora-16-with-gitolite
　　http://rickfoosusa.blogspot.com/2011/08/gitolite-tutorial-senawario.html
　　
　　
　　
　　source  http://luzem.dyndns.org/2012/03/12/installing-gitlab-2-1-on-centos-6/