How can I get Gitlab 6.5 to show its icons under a Apache 2.4 proxy?

Question

I cannot fix the icons on Gitlab bring proxied by Apache 2.4. My failure may be because I am not using passenger (passenger provided its own set of problems that were much deep

Answer 1

Since it is under a relative root, you still would need to run the following as noted above in order to verify the correct mapping of the assets (which includes icons and CSS URLs):

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT=/gitlab

For you non-relative URL users, leave off the extra relative URL portion

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

You can also restart as noted by @LpLrich :

sudo service gitlab restart

For some older Linux setups instead use:

sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab restart

Then refresh your browser.

Yet none of the above steps worked on my system because, as best as I can say, imperfect Apache setup which I fixed below--including it in case you are finding the same issue of fixing Gitlab correctly but finding the end result failing in the browser. I did change to not using the relative URL root anymore but that doesn't matter so much. This should help Apache fix the issue above as well once the gitlab steps are completed. Sorry, the ProxyPassReverse is the main change you need to notice from the question's Apache setup:

  Servername gitlab.my_domain.com
  ServerAdmin my_admin@my_domain.com

  SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/gitlab_my_domain.crt
  SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/gitlab_my_domain_private.key
  SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/gitlab.ca-bundle

  ##### All the other Apache SSL setup skipped here for StackOverflow ####

  ProxyPreserveHost On

  
    # New authorization commands for apache 2.4 and up
    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access
    Require all granted

    # For relative URL root "host:your_gitlab_port/relative_root"
    #ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/gitlab
    #ProxyPassReverse https://gitlab.my_domain.com/gitlab

    # For non-relative URL root
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080
    ProxyPassReverse https://gitlab.my_domain.com/
  

  # apache equivalent of nginx try files
  # http://serverfault.com/questions/290784/what-is-apaches-equivalent-of-nginxs-try-files
  # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10954516/apache2-proxypass-for-rails-app-gitlab
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule .* http://127.0.0.1:8080%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA]
  RequestHeader set X_FORWARDED_PROTO 'https'

  # needed for downloading attachments
  DocumentRoot /home/git/gitlab/public

  #Set up apache error documents, if back end goes down (i.e. 503 error) then a maintenance/deploy page is thrown up.
  ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
  ErrorDocument 422 /422.html
  ErrorDocument 500 /500.html
  ErrorDocument 503 /deploy.html

  LogFormat  "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common_forwarded
  ErrorLog      /var/log/apache2/gitlab-ssl_error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab-ssl_forwarded.log common_forwarded
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab-ssl_access.log combined env=!dontlog
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitlab-ssl.log combined

(from https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/blob/master/web-server/apache/gitlab-ssl-apache2.4.conf)