If you are running a Minimal Install of CentOS 6 see Olav’s comment below. I’m going to assume you already have a CentOS server up and running, SELinux is disabled, you aren’t using a firewall (iptables), the default CentOS Python 2.6 packages installed and Sendmail or Postfix up and running. I also installed it under a custom user account and not the default ‘git’ account that the Gitlab documentation tells you to use. I installed Gitlab 5.0 on CentOS 6.4 64-bit and used MySQL as my database back end and configured my existing Apache deployment to proxy connections to Gitlab. Using the official document as a guide I managed to get things deployed on my system and now I’m going to share it with you.

These instructions should also work for Redhat Enterprise 6 and are meant for a fresh installation.

I followed the documentation provided by the Gitlab guys at and as expected it didn’t quite match up with what needs to be done to deploy on CentOS 6. I’ve been eagerly waiting for Gitlab 5.0 to be released so that Gitolite dependency would go away.

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