in a project I´m working I got the task of being responsible for our gitlab server. In the gitlab.rb of this existing service I found the following line:
nginx['custom_gitlab_server_config'] = "location ^~ /.well-known { root /var/www/letsencrypt; }"
Can anyone explain me what´s happening there?
Thank you!
It looks like it's redirecting requests to gitlabserver.tld/.well-known to /var/www/letsencrypt. Let's Encrypt verifies you own a domain by placing the .well-known directory in the root of your webserver than attempting to read files from there.
So the config line is basically to allow letsencrypt verification for free SSL certificates.
nginx['custom_gitlab_server_config']
allows you to specify custom configuration for nginx which is the web server gitlab uses. Info on nginx location can be found here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location
