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# Make sure to change "localhost" to the fully-qualified domain name of your
# host serving GitLab where necessary
#
# If you want to use https make sure that you set `https` to `true`. See #using-https for more details.
#
# If you installed Git from source, change the git bin_path to /usr/local/bin/git
sudo -u git -H editor config/gitlab.yml
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# domain name of your host serving GitLab.
sudo editor /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab
**Note:** If you want to use https, replace the `gitlab` nginx config with `gitlab-ssl`.
**Note:** If you want to use https, replace the `gitlab` nginx config with `gitlab-ssl`. See #using-https for more details.
### Restart
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## Advanced Setup Tips
### Using HTTPS
This is a retrospective of what is needed to configure in order to use GitLab with HTTPS:
1. In `gitlab.yml` enable https by setting `https` option to `true`
1. In gitlab-shell `config.yml` provide paths to the certificates under `ca_file` and `ca_path options.
In case you are using self signed certificate set `self_signed_cert` to `true`. `gitlab_url` must point to the https host.
1. Use `gitlab-ssl` nginx config
### Additional markup styles
Apart from the always supported markdown style there are other rich text files that GitLab can display. But you might have to install a dependency to do so. Please see the [github-markup gem readme](https://github.com/gitlabhq/markup#markups) for more information. For example, reStructuredText markup language support requires python-docutils:
