gitlab behind reverse proxy generates ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

[cszawisza]

Hi!

What I'm Trying to achieve

Deploy gitlab using reverse proxy based on sameersbn/nginx:1.10.3 with SSL support. Or in other words, force gitlab to work on https://gitlab.site.com insted of site.com:10080

My current configuration

docker run
docker info
nginx config for gitlab
i removed the 'spdy' protocol from configuration due to some warnings after config reload in nginx

My docker configuration is based on Using https with load balancer
Nginx config for gitlab subdomain was based on #723

What is wrong

After starting containers, every connection ends up with an redirect loop error...
wget response to http://gitlab.site.com
the same error appears if I try to connect to gitlab using direct IP address (http://<server_ip>:10080)

I don't know what sort of information may be useful at the moment, so please tell me what else can I paste.

[tomastzn]

I have a similar setup.

The difference is that I run the reverse proxy(nginx) on one host(192.168.32.32), not in docker, and gitlab in docker on another host(192.168.33.33).
Also, my setup exposes gitlab on relative path /gitlab, with HTTPs on non-standard port.

Here is the part of the nginx configuration:

upstream gitlabserver {
	server 192.168.33.33:10080;
}

server {
        listen 44444 ssl default_server;
        server_name *****;

        # SSL certificate, key, protocols and ciphers here

        underscores_in_headers on;

	location /gitlab/ {
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

                proxy_pass http://gitlabserver;
		proxy_redirect https://$host/ https://$host:$server_port/;

                client_max_body_size 10M;
                proxy_buffer_size 8k;
                gzip off;
	}
}

Note: Since I use non-standard port, the proxy_redirect directive tells the nginx to rewrite redirects so they don't loose the port.

And here are the environment variables for docker running gitlab:

# Host where gitlab is exposed, ports and relative root
GITLAB_HTTPS=true
GITLAB_HOST=********
GITLAB_TRUSTED_PROXIES=192.168.32.32
GITLAB_SSH_PORT=10022
GITLAB_PORT=44444
GITLAB_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT=/gitlab
NGINX_REAL_IP_RECURSIVE=on
NGINX_REAL_IP_TRUSTED_ADDRESSES=192.168.32.32

Hopefully this will help you resolve the issue.

[cszawisza]

Hi!

Funny thing is that... It started to work after I clean my data directory and start a fresh copy of gitlab

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