Installing Gitorious on Ubuntu 11.04

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Lucas Jenß

This guide is based on the Ubuntu Installation Guide from the Gitorious Wiki, but it is a little outdated, so here’s my updated version.

Sudo make sandwich

Pretty much all of the following commands need to be executed as the superuser, so first of all we make ourselves root (alternatively you could prepend sudo to every command, but that is rather tiresome. I do not recommend to always work as root though, because that way you will incur the wrath of the invisible pink unicorn):

$ sudo su
[sudo] password for <username>:

Install packages

When installing all these packages, you will be asked for a MySQL root password, which you should remember, because you will need it later on.

$ aptitude install \
build-essential zlib1g-dev tcl-dev libexpat-dev libxslt1-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev postfix apache2 mysql-server mysql-client \
apg geoip-bin libgeoip1 libgeoip-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev \
imagemagick libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev \
libmysqlclient15-dev apache2-dev libonig-dev ruby-dev rubygems \
libopenssl-ruby libdbd-mysql-ruby libmysql-ruby \
libmagick++-dev zip unzip memcached git-core git-svn git-doc \
git-cvs irb

Install Ruby Gems

Apparently some of the gems required by Gitorious need at least RubyGems v1.4 to work, and Ubuntu 11.04 ships with v1.3.7, so you need to force-update RubyGems (“force” because usually you would update RubyGems through aptitude):

$ REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM=1 gem update --system

Now we can install all the necessary gems:

$ gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc -v 0.8.7 rake && \
gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc -v 1.1.0 daemons && \
gem install -b --no-ri --no-rdoc \
rmagick stompserver passenger bundler

You may ask yourself why there are significantly less Gems here compared to the old guide. This is because bunder installs all those Gems automagically from the data in the Gemfile.lock

Installing the Sphinx Search Server

$ wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-0.9.9.tar.gz && \
tar -xzf sphinx-0.9.9.tar.gz && \
cd sphinx-0.9.9 && \
./configure --prefix=/usr && \
make all install

Getting Gitorious

$ git clone git://gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline.git /var/www/gitorious && \
cd /var/www/gitorious && \
git submodule init && \
git submodule update

Easy as pie. Now we just need to put the Gitorious binary on our path:

$ ln -s /var/www/gitorious/script/gitorious /usr/bin

Configuring services

Gitorious needs a bunch of background services, so we need to copy the supplied startup scripts:

$ cd /var/www/gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu/ && \
cp git-daemon git-poller git-ultrasphinx stomp /etc/init.d/ && \
cd /etc/init.d/ && \
chmod 755 git-daemon git-poller git-ultrasphinx stomp

and enable them:

$ update-rc.d git-daemon defaults && \
update-rc.d git-poller defaults && \
update-rc.d git-ultrasphinx defaults && \
update-rc.d stomp defaults

We need to create an additional symlink, because all the startup scripts have RUBY_HOME set to /opt/ruby-enterprise (alternatively we could just patch the files, but this way it is easier and you can update the scripts if needed):

$ ln -s /usr/ /opt/ruby-enterprise

Configuring Apache

Passenger

First of all, we need to compile the Apache2 passenger module:

$ $(gem contents passenger | grep passenger-install-apache2-module)

The passenger configuration script will tell you exactly what you’ll need to add to your apache configuration. The part you need to copy looks like this:

Please edit your Apache configuration file, and add these lines:

LoadModule passenger_module <some path>
PassengerRoot <another path>
PassengerRuby <yet another path>

After you restart Apache, you are ready to deploy any number of Ruby on Rails
applications on Apache, without any further Ruby on Rails-specific
configuration!

These three lines need to be inserted into

/etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load

Enabling necessary modules

$ a2enmod passenger && \
a2enmod rewrite && \
a2enmod ssl

Creating the Apache2 sites

Create /etc/apache2/sites-available/gitorious (see files below)
Create /etc/apache2/sites-available/gitorious-ssl (see files below)

Now we need to disable the default site, and enable our freshly created Gitorious sites:

$ a2dissite default && \
a2dissite default-ssl && \
a2ensite gitorious && \
a2ensite gitorious-ssl

Creating a MySQL user for gitorious

$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password: (your mysql root password you selected while installing the packages)
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'gitorious'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<insert password>' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Configuring Gitorious

First of all, we need to make sure we have all gems in the correct version for Gitorious, so we run the following:

$ cd /var/www/gitorious/ && \
bundle install && \
bundle pack

Now we can create the user under which Gitorious will run and serve the Git repositories:

$ adduser --system --home /var/www/gitorious/ --no-create-home --group --shell /bin/bash git && \
chown -R git:git /var/www/gitorious

Then we need to create some stuff that Gitorious needs to run:

$ su - git && \
mkdir .ssh && \
touch .ssh/authorized_keys && \
chmod 700 .ssh && \
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys && \
mkdir tmp/pids && \
mkdir repositories && \
mkdir tarballs

Creating the Gitorious configuration

Lets copy the sample configuration files to the correct path:

$ cp config/database.sample.yml config/database.yml && \
cp config/gitorious.sample.yml config/gitorious.yml && \
cp config/broker.yml.example config/broker.yml

Now edit the config/database.yml and make sure you set the correct username and password in the production section. After that, we need to set a couple of things in config/gitorious.yml:

Make sure you are configuring the right section (not test:, but production:)
repository_base_path should be /var/www/gitorious/repositories
cookie_secret needs to be set to a random value >= 30 characters
gitorious_client_port should be 80
gitorious_host needs to be the exact hostname that clients will use (cookies get messed up otherwise)
archive_cache_dir should be /var/www/gitorious/tarballs
archive_work_dir should be something like /tmp/tarballs-work
hide_http_clone_urls should be true (they require extra unknown setup to work)
is_gitorious_dot_org should be false

Creating the Gitorious database

Because of an incompatibility of RubyGems with Rails < 2.3.11 you need to add the following line at the top of config/boot.rb:

require 'thread'

Now we let rake do all the work for us:

$ export RAILS_ENV=production && \
bundle exec rake db:create && \
bundle exec rake db:migrate && \
bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap

Create the Sphinx Cronjob

$ crontab -e * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production

Create an admin user

env RAILS_ENV=production ruby1.8 script/create_admin

Reboot

You’re finally done. Reboot your Ubuntu machine, and your Gitorious installation should be up and running. If you find an error, feel free to leave a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible :)

Files

gitorious

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your.server.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/gitorious/public
</VirtualHost>

gitorious-ssl

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
DocumentRoot /var/www/gitorious/public
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

155 thoughts on “Installing Gitorious on Ubuntu 11.04”

Karl Shea on September 7, 2011 at 4:18 am said:

Thanks for the writeup!
Looks like package ‘libopenssl-rub’ should be ‘libopenssl-ruby’
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Lucas on September 7, 2011 at 9:57 am said:

Indeed, fixed that. Thanks :)
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J Cummings on September 9, 2011 at 1:24 am said:

It looks like before running
$ cd /var/www/gitorious/ && \
bundle install
One should run:
gem install bundle
Otherwise, I got a
bundle: command not found
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- Lucas on September 9, 2011 at 10:35 am said:
  
  Yeah, I somehow forgot the bundler gem in the Installing Ruby Gems section, thanks :)
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Precinct25 on September 9, 2011 at 9:07 am said:

Awesome writeup, was super easy to follow!
I’ve got one problem, everything seems to be working until I try and login, and I get this error:
ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken (ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken):
I followed your guide exactly with one exception, I activated the admin user via the console, but I don’t think that would cause this issue? Any idea on how I could fix, I’m dying to get it working!
Thanks!
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- Lucas on September 9, 2011 at 10:42 am said:
  Hey there. I’ve been having this problem ever since I first installed Gitorious, and it is a Chrome/Safari only problem, at least for me.
  The problem seems to be that Gitorious is not able to run on subdomains or IPs, so you’ll have to set “gitorious_host” to something that has the format “<name>” or “<name>.<domain>”. I’ve been able to get it running, for example, using
  - gitorious
  - gitorious.local (bonjour/zeroconf)
  If you don’t have a DNS you can just add these to your hosts file
  Hope that helps :)
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Precinct25 on September 9, 2011 at 8:00 pm said:

Yeah it works perfectly in Firefox, just confirmed that, it’s only a chrome/safari issue.
For me though, my host is set to a real production FQDN, so it’s git.domain.com. So shouldn’t that work in chrome/safari?
Also, when having it set to git.domain.com I get a error inside my production log:
The specified gitorious_host is reserved in Gitorious See http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/ErrorMessages for further explanation
Does this mean I’m not supposed to use git.domain.com as the FQDN?
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- Lucas on September 9, 2011 at 8:18 pm said:
  
  Yeah, you shouldn’t use git.domain.com because Gitorious uses it to serve it’s repositories (apparently, couldn’t see that in my installation :D, but that is what the wiki page you linked to says).
  Apparently it doesn’t matter to Gitorious if it is a FQDN or not, it just doesn’t work on subdomains. Could you try it on a “domain.com” to verify that it really is the same issue that I’m having over here. That would make it way easier to submit a bug report, because I can’t make my Gitorious installation world accessible.
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  - Precinct25 on September 9, 2011 at 9:56 pm said:
    
    Yeah, changed it from git to gitorious.domain.com and that fixed that error, it also started to work in Safari when I did that, but not Chrome.
    I changed it to domain.com and that fixed the issue in Chrome/Safari.
    Mine is world accessible, so we could replicate it there just to be sure.
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    - Lucas on September 11, 2011 at 1:36 am said:
      
      I’ve filed a bug (#40) over at the Gitorious Bugtracker. I’d appreciate it if you’d post any additional information you have :)
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Stephen J. Fuhry on September 14, 2011 at 3:47 pm said:

Before running bundle exec rake db:migrate I also had to uncomment this line in config/environment.rb
config.action_controller.session_store = :active_record_store
and add this line:
config.action_controller.session = { :key => “gitorious”, :secret => “secret phrase of at least 30 characters” }
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Francis Varga on September 15, 2011 at 8:57 pm said:

Hi, i have a error by starting the rake task.
https://github.com/roman/rots.git (at master) is not checked out. Please run
bundle install
and i don’t know why, because bundle install said it’s complete.
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- Lucas on September 15, 2011 at 9:00 pm said:
  
  That repository doesn’t exist ;) Anyhow, you should consider asking your question on Stackoverflow, but with a proper error message :)
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  - Francis Varga on September 15, 2011 at 9:08 pm said:
    
    I can show you my error message =>
    git@christine:/var/www/gitorious$ bundle exec rake db:create https://github.com/roman/rots.git (at master) is not checked out. Please run
    bundle install
    that’s annoying xD
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    - Lucas on September 16, 2011 at 12:21 am said:
      
      I actually have no clue what could cause this, but I’ll have a look at my configuration tomorrow and see what I can figure out.
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    - Sebastian on November 10, 2011 at 2:24 am said:
      
      I fixed the issue with rots by doing this:
      As the root user do:
      1. git clone git://github.com/roman/rots.git
      2. cd rots && gem build rots.gemspec && gem install rots-0.2.1.gem
      3. rm -rf /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bundler/gems/rots-babb5559aae8
      4. edit /var/www/gitorious/Gemfile:
      replace gem “rots”, :git => ‘https://github.com/roman/rots.git’
      with gem “rots”, “~> 0.2.1″
      5. run bundle install && bundle pack
      6. export RAILS_ENV=production && \
      bundle exec rake db:create && \
      bundle exec rake db:migrate && \
      bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
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      - Matthieu Auger on December 22, 2011 at 4:05 pm said:
        
        Worked for me. Thanks
      - John B on August 8, 2012 at 2:40 am said:
        
        Thanks
- George Jiglau on September 24, 2011 at 2:34 pm said:
  
  To fix this error, simply run [code]bundle pack[/code]
  This will copy the needed gems into vendor/cache, solving your problem
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  - Jonathan on October 29, 2011 at 1:44 pm said:
    
    This helped me! Lucas, perhaps you could add this step right before the rake stage…
    Also – creating the two sites under the “Creating the Apache2 sites” stage is simply performing mkdir, right?
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    - Jonathan on October 29, 2011 at 1:59 pm said:
      
      Notice that right before the rake stage you’re using the git user and not your root user, but
      bundle pack
      should be run from root…
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  - Lucas on October 29, 2011 at 5:31 pm said:
    
    Added the bundle pack command to the guide. Thanks.
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- Benjamin on November 11, 2011 at 3:42 am said:
  
  try
  bundle pack bundle install –path vender/cache
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  - Lucas on November 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm said:
    
    Do you perhaps mean “vendor/cache”?
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Stephen J. Fuhry on September 17, 2011 at 3:03 am said:

I was getting fatal errors when trying to push from a remote location without:
gitorious_client_host : localhost
in gitorious.yml
Also, for some reason my install really insists on creating the repositories right in /var/www/gitorious instead of /var/www/gitorious/repositories.
I’m not sure if this is the reason or not, but when I first installed it, I seem to have accidentally put repository_base_path: “/var/www/gitorious” instead of “/var/www/gitorious/repositories”… I deleted the mysqldatabase and started over from scratch starting with cloning gitorious off their site, but it still insists on just dumping all the repository data right in the root directory…
Kindof annoying, but at least it finally works!
Oh, and for some unknown reason, the second time around I couldn’t do
bundle install
without this guy:
sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev
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- Lucas on September 17, 2011 at 3:11 am said:
  
  Just a hunch, but did you restart the server after re-installing Gitorious? If not, maybe one of the background daemons is still running with the old configuration or something like that.
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- Michael on October 6, 2011 at 7:52 pm said:
  
  Thanks, I was having this issue too.
  Also, I did reboot the server, so not a daemon issue.
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  - Michael on October 6, 2011 at 11:24 pm said:
    
    note: issue with fatal errors. Although both issues you had I had too, so thanks :)
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matt weppler on September 17, 2011 at 11:32 pm said:

For “Francis Varga”…
I was having the same issues this morning. I reran this step:
su – git && \ mkdir .ssh && \ touch .ssh/authorized_keys && \ chmod 700 .ssh && \ chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys && \ mkdir tmp/pids && \ mkdir repositories && \ mkdir tarballs
and maybe this(although I cant remember if I actually ran this as the git user or not):
su – git cd /var/www/gitorious/ bundle install
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ryall on September 20, 2011 at 5:14 am said:

Thanks for taking the time to write up this guide. It saved me a hell of a long time trying to nut this out myself. I wrote up an automated install script based on your instructions and . Now I can roll out a Gitorious server in no time :)
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Loa on October 5, 2011 at 3:21 pm said:

Everything up and running on Ubuntu 11.04. I can create repos from gitorious and everything.
I have added my public key to my user account.
But when I try to
git remote add origin git@gitorious.domain.com:project/repo.git git push origin master I get prompted to write the password for the git user. What might be the issue?
Tried to google but only find people having issues with github and official gitorious.org.
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- Lucas on October 5, 2011 at 7:38 pm said:
  
  I’m not really sure what might be causing your problem. Have you checked if all the services are running?
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  - Loa on October 6, 2011 at 8:34 am said:
    
    I think so. Do you know what service that should take care of the ssh push actions etc?
    git 996 0.0 2.7 192060 113512 ? Sl Oct05 0:32 poller git 1013 0.0 0.0 27728 1156 ? S Oct05 0:02 searchd –config /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf git 1036 0.0 0.4 63608 16608 ? S Oct05 0:07 /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby /usr/bin/stompserver -w /var/www/gitorious/tmp/stomp -q file -s queue git 1222 0.0 2.8 206596 116316 ? S Oct05 0:00 Rails: /var/www/gitorious git 1648 0.0 2.6 180984 108272 ? S Oct05 0:00 /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby /var/www/gitorious/script/git-daemon -d
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- Loa on October 6, 2011 at 4:14 pm said:
  
  I checked through and think I understand the authentication a little bit more now.
  When I created the “.ssh” dir in /var/www/gitorious then gitorious created an authorized_keys file for ssh authentication when I added another public key.
  It’s still not authenticating me though, I only get asked for password when trying to push to the server. What I understand this is usually cause I have invalid pub key but I tried to generate / add / delete keys back and forth without change.
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  - Lucas on October 6, 2011 at 6:47 pm said:
    
    What you could try is a ssh -vvv git@gitorious.domain.com to see where it actually fails (-vvv stands for “very very verbose”).
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    - Loa on October 7, 2011 at 2:22 pm said:
      
      Got it to work finally. I will write down my issues here incase someone else have the same. Sorry for cluttering up your blog Lucas but thanks for this excellent guide for Gitorious! :)
      Directories that was missing I had to manually add “/var/www/gitorious/tmp/pids” and “/var/www/gitorious/.ssh” directories. These are needed for poller and ssh auth.
      I had wrong permissions on “/var/www/gitorious/”, “/var/www/gitorious/.ssh” and “/var/www/gitorious/.ssh/autorized_keys” so ssh refused to use the keys thus prompting me to type password when trying to make the initial “git push origin master”. If you look in “/var/log/auth.log” you will notice the message “Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory” if you have this issues. Fixing this is easy by issuing “chmod go-w /var/www/gitorious”, “chmod 700 /var/www/gitorious/.ssh” and “chmod 600 /var/www/gitorious/.ssh/authorized_keys”. Make sure that git owns gitorious dir swell….
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Michael on October 5, 2011 at 9:49 pm said:
Thanks for the guide, seems a lot better than most, easy to follow, and wasn’t having any issues.
Only problem is now, coming to do “bundle install”, I get:
Installing nokogiri (1.5.0) with native extensions Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
```
    /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
```
checking for libxml/parser.h… yes
checking for libxslt/xslt.h… no
libxslt is missing. please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies.
An error occured while installing nokogiri (1.5.0), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that
gem install nokogiri -v '1.5.0'
succeeds before bundling.
Any help would be awesome. Thanks
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- Michael on October 5, 2011 at 9:56 pm said:
  
  Okay, maybe I should have done a little more digging first, after running: sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev it then installed. Seems like Stephen J. Fuhry (#comment-96) had the same issue for some reason too.
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  - Lucas on October 5, 2011 at 11:38 pm said:
    
    Hey there. I still don’t have a clue what causes this issue, but I added libxslt1-dev nonetheless. Like that hopefully no one else will run into this problem :)
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    - Loa on October 6, 2011 at 8:31 am said:
      
      Hade the same issue…
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    - Rishwan on October 31, 2012 at 11:08 am said:
      
      Hi, I have libxslt1-dev installed via apt-get .. but i am still having issues when the bundler goes upto installing nokogiri -v ’1.5.0′… any help?
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Matthias Hryniszak on October 6, 2011 at 10:08 pm said:

This is the first guide that worked for me. THANKS!!!
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Bruno on October 13, 2011 at 3:42 am said:

root@potter:/var/www/gitorious# export RAILS_ENV=production && bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap (in /var/www/gitorious) Rebuilding configurations for production environment Available models are Comment, Repository, MergeRequest, and Project Generating SQL $ indexer –config ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’ –all Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
using config file ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’… WARNING: key ‘address’ is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/pr oduction.conf line 10; use ‘listen’ instead. indexing index ‘main’… ERROR: index ‘main’: sql_range_query: Unknown column ‘base_tags.name’ in ‘field list’ (DSN=mysql://root:***@localhost:3306/gitorious_production). total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.007 sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec total 0 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg total 0 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
using config file ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’… WARNING: key ‘address’ is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/pr oduction.conf line 10; use ‘listen’ instead. listening on all interfaces, port=3312 WARNING: index ‘main’: preload: failed to open /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx//sph inx_index_main.sph: No such file or directory; NOT SERVING FATAL: no valid indexes to serve Failed to start Done Please restart your application containers
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Bruno on October 13, 2011 at 3:44 am said:

Sorry about that comment before, didn’t go through as expected :( I’m having issues with the sphinx bootstrap on the creating database step, I get a lot of errors. Here’s what I get:
root@potter:/var/www/gitorious# export RAILS_ENV=production && bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap (in /var/www/gitorious) Rebuilding configurations for production environment Available models are Comment, Repository, MergeRequest, and Project Generating SQL $ indexer –config ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’ –all Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
using config file ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’… WARNING: key ‘address’ is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/pr oduction.conf line 10; use ‘listen’ instead. indexing index ‘main’… ERROR: index ‘main’: sql_range_query: Unknown column ‘base_tags.name’ in ‘field list’ (DSN=mysql://root:***@localhost:3306/gitorious_production). total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.007 sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec total 0 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg total 0 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
using config file ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’… WARNING: key ‘address’ is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/pr oduction.conf line 10; use ‘listen’ instead. listening on all interfaces, port=3312 WARNING: index ‘main’: preload: failed to open /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx//sph inx_index_main.sph: No such file or directory; NOT SERVING FATAL: no valid indexes to serve Failed to start Done Please restart your application containers
Any ideas why that could be?
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fman on October 16, 2011 at 3:46 pm said:

Regarding – Francis Varga issue: https://github.com/roman/rots.git (at master) is not checked out. Please run bundle install
I’ve got the same. Seems I’ve fixed it with something similar to what matt weppler has explained on http://coding-journal.com/installing-gitorious-on-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-98.
I’m a absolute ZERO on ruby & rails, then it would be great is someone can confirm what user has to used on: cd /var/www/gitorious/ && bundle install root or git ?
I’ve found an article based on this one (http://blog.kyodium.net/2011/09/install-gitorious-on-ubuntu-1104.html ) where an script will ALL STEPS need is provided. In this script su – git is done before running
export RAILS_ENV=production && \ bundle exec rake db:create && \ bundle exec rake db:migrate && \ bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
If I run this as git I get issue regarding rots missing.
Hope this comments is not a lot confusing, but I would like to know is somethings has to be added to this excelent tutorial in order to install gitorious without glitches.
Thank a lot to Lucas for this superb guide
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Lucas on October 16, 2011 at 4:18 pm said:

Hey there. At the beginning of the guide we completely switch to root mode, that means that cd /var/www/gitorious/ && bundle install has to be run as root as well. At some point we create the git user and switch to it (after the first bundle install call) and everything after that is run as the git user, which includes the following command:
$ export RAILS_ENV=production && \
bundle exec rake db:create && \
bundle exec rake db:migrate && \
bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
This worked perfectly for me when I installed it. Have you tried running it as root? It actually shouldn’t make much of a difference. As soon as I have time I will try another installation run on a fresh Ubuntu 11.04, hopefully I’ll then get the same error which would allow me to find a workaround. For now I’m don’t really have a good idea on how to fix it, sorry.
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fman on October 18, 2011 at 3:16 pm said:

Lucas: thanks for your anwser. I’va done “export RAILS_ENV=production && \ bundle exec rake db:create && \ bundle exec rake db:migrate && \ bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap” as root.
Then after server restart, I’ve had the error when trying to start git-daeom: https://github.com/roman/rots.git (at master) is not checked out. Please run bundle install
I also will try to find time to REPEAT all steps and give you feedback. Now I’ve giturious running but … when I try to register a new user I get error: “Sorry, something went wrong Gitorious encountered an server error. We are automatically notified of errors and will look into it. If the error persists beyond what’s reasonable, let us know.”
can be this error a issue related to POSTFIX configuration ?
regards
Francisco
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- fman on October 18, 2011 at 7:22 pm said:
  
  Error found: FQDN server name not used. Sorry
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Kjellski on October 24, 2011 at 12:04 pm said:

I’ve had a problem with the cookie_secret option in the last step of this tutorial where this option needs to be replaced with something longer than the default “sssht” in the config/gitorious.yml file.
The hint to solve this is also included in the comments there, but they misspelled “apq”, which should be “apg” as long as I know. You could mention this in the tutorial just to complete the writeup.
Nevertheless, thanks a lot for this, worked out pretty well for me!
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- Lucas on October 28, 2011 at 1:07 pm said:
  
  I added the cookie_secret setting to the guide, thanks :) Also, for me it says apg -m 64 in the comment above the option, and I just pulled the latest version. Did you perhaps misread? ;)
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George Hindle on October 26, 2011 at 2:43 pm said:

The Gitorious repository uses submodules for some javascript dependancies, without getting these some errors occur when building pages, I noticed that the clone urls were all blank.
After this step
git clone git://gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline.git /var/www/gitorious
we need to do the following
cd /var/www/gitorious &&
git submodule init &&
git submodule update
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- Lucas on October 28, 2011 at 1:01 pm said:
  
  Thanks :) I added it to the guide. I wonder why it didn’t cause any errors for me though.
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yanzhangwu on October 28, 2011 at 9:27 am said:

Thank you for this guide, I Have sucecss depoly it .
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- Lucas on October 28, 2011 at 1:04 pm said:
  
  You’re welcome :)
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Jonathan on October 28, 2011 at 12:01 pm said:
I’ve been having the following error in the database creation step:
git@my-comp:~$ export RAILS_ENV=production && \
```
bundle exec rake db:create &amp;&amp; \

bundle exec rake db:migrate &amp;&amp; \

bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
```
(in /var/www/gitorious) Couldn’t create database for {“encoding”=>”utf8″, “username”=>”root”, “adapter”=>”mysql”, “database”=>”gitorious_production”, “host”=>”localhost”, “password”=>nil}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_unicode_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation) (in /var/www/gitorious) rake aborted! Secret should be something secure, like “18d97308454972ee56ffc60959b6d97d”. The value you provided, “ssssht”, is shorter than the minimum length of 30 characters
(See full trace by running task with –trace)
I'm new to... everything actually, so please be gentle :)
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- Lucas on October 28, 2011 at 12:54 pm said:
  
  I’m not sure about the database collation thing. Did you manually create the gitorious_production database, perhaps? And the second error occurs because you haven’t set a proper value for cookie_secret in your “gitorious.yml” configuration file.
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  - Jonathan on October 28, 2011 at 1:00 pm said:
    
    Also, does 32bit vs. 64bit makes a difference?
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    - Lucas on October 28, 2011 at 1:03 pm said:
      
      No, that should definitely make no difference as you install everything through the package manager, which usually takes care of the platform dependent issues for you.
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  - Jonathan on October 29, 2011 at 1:14 pm said:
    
    Regarding the error message above, I think there’s only one problem here, not two. The utf8_unicode_ci collation is the one I always use with utf8 charset, so that’s probably just an irrelevant warning. What would be a proper value for cookie_secret? any long enough random sequence of characters would do? Should I take it from somewhere?
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    - Lucas on October 29, 2011 at 5:27 pm said:
      
      Yes, any random sequence of characters will do, as far as I know. I’m using a hexadecimal string (e.g. b5b2d76255991ffbd697ebdf046725db1b2ffeb63ad) which you could, for example, generate using
      dd if=/dev/urandom bs=100 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -v -e '1/1 "%02x"'
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Jonathan on October 28, 2011 at 12:03 pm said:

Would this guide work on 11.10? Would it work on the standard ubuntu edition and not the server edition
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- Lucas on October 28, 2011 at 12:46 pm said:
  
  I haven’t tested it yet, but this guide should work on Ubuntu 11.10. Also there is no major difference between the GUI and the Server version (except for the missing Window Server) so it (again) should be working there too.
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Jonathan on October 29, 2011 at 2:02 pm said:

The rake step produced the following errors:
ERROR: index 'main': sql_range_query: Unknown column 'base_tags.name' in 'field list' (DSN=mysql://root:***@localhost:3306/gitorious_production).
and
using config file '/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf'...
WARNING: key 'address' is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf line 10; use 'listen' instead.
listening on all interfaces, port=3312
WARNING: index 'main': preload: failed to open /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx//sphinx_index_main.sph: No such file or directory; NOT SERVING
FATAL: no valid indexes to serve
Failed to start
Done
Please restart your application containers
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- Aravindan Chockalingam on December 29, 2011 at 7:10 pm said:
  
  try this: vi /home/git/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf # replace base_tags with tags bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
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  - harry on January 21, 2012 at 4:09 pm said:
    
    i am facing the same problem
    help me
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Aljoscha on October 30, 2011 at 12:54 pm said:

in the mysql privileges query should not there be ‘git’@'localhost’ as created by adduser (afterwards)?
on the other side, i get the same issues as jonathan on the (ultrasphinx) rake step :-(
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Jonathan on October 30, 2011 at 9:54 pm said:

Under the “Creating the Apache2 sites” stage – how exactly do I create them? Is it simply creating the directories (mkdir) or should I place files there? From where?
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Rocklviv on October 31, 2011 at 4:16 pm said:

Hi! I have some trouble! When i try log in to system server gave me error 500! what i did wrong ?
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- Lucas on October 31, 2011 at 4:57 pm said:
  
  You’ll have to take a look at your log files to see what is going wrong! Given the fact that it happens when you try to login, I’d guess that it is a problem with the gitorious_host setting though. What did you configure it to be?
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David on November 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm said:

Hello At the step with: export RAILS_ENV=production && \ bundle exec rake db:create && \ bundle exec rake db:migrate && \ bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
I see this error: git@gitux:~$ export RAILS_ENV=production && bundle exec rake db:create && bundle exec rake db:migrate && bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/childprocess-0.2.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-08-11 00:00:00.000000000Z” Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.6.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-09-18 00:00:00.000000000Z” Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.5.4.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-08-31 00:00:00.000000000Z” Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/childprocess-0.2.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-08-11 00:00:00.000000000Z” Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.6.1.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-09-18 00:00:00.000000000Z” Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.5.4.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-08-31 00:00:00.000000000Z” NOTE: Gem::Specification#has_rdoc= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed on or after 2011-10-01. Gem::Specification#has_rdoc= called from /var/www/gitorious/.bundler/ruby/1.8/rots-babb5559aae8/rots.gemspec:19 . Could not find json-1.5.4 in any of the sources
Any ideas? Thanks, david
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- Vinnie on December 1, 2011 at 6:44 am said:
  
  I had the same problem as you David and my solution was to edit the s.date element in /var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/json-1.5.4.gemspec and /var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/childprocess-0.2.1.gemspec, removing the 0000000000Z at the end of the date fixed the problem. My json-1.5.4.gemspec s.date reads %q{2011-08-31}
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Jello_Raptor on November 8, 2011 at 1:30 pm said:

Yup, i get the same ultrasphinx error as johnathan, any ideas? i’ve got a clean install on a new VPS.
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Korvin on November 9, 2011 at 11:05 pm said:

My website won’t allow login/registration, it redirects to a 500 error with no logged errors ?
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Korvin on November 9, 2011 at 11:11 pm said:

Looks like I missed this error: http://pastebin.com/D8J1hGnH
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- Lucas on November 10, 2011 at 7:16 am said:
  
  This is most likely a problem with your
  gitorious_host
  setting. Make sure that you’re setting the exact same FQDN you see in your browser bar, otherwise it won’t work. There is a bug with this setting too, see this bug entry for more info.
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gemfield on November 14, 2011 at 10:48 am said:

After i successfully installed the gitorious,it worked first time,but next day i reboot my ubuntu,and use msysgit on win7,the following error occured:
Pushing to git@192.168.22.244:gps/gemfield-gps.git == Gitorious: ==========================================================
Access denied or bad command
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
what is the reason?
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greg on November 14, 2011 at 3:47 pm said:

The su – git && mkdir .ssh etc command needs to be split in two. i.e first “su – git” and once in the git user’s env, execute mkdir && etc.
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- Lucas on November 16, 2011 at 11:42 am said:
  
  Fixed that, thanks.
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Jason Goemaat on November 15, 2011 at 6:55 pm said:

I’m on a fresh ubuntu 11.10 install and am getting an error with the crontab step. My exact command:
crontab -e * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
Here’s what I get: crontab: usage error: no arguments permitted after this option
Any ideas?
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- Lucas on November 16, 2011 at 11:47 am said:
  
  Interesting. If I remember correctly, this worked perfectly for me on 11.04… What you could try is to call
  crontab -e
  without parameters, and then adding the
  cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
  line manually to the file with the editor which opens.
  Let me know if that works for you :)
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  - Niels Bjerg on August 30, 2012 at 9:53 am said:
    
    That worked like a charm
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mramos1004 on November 19, 2011 at 4:13 pm said:

my clone urls are blank.. what could possibly be the reason?
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- Lucas on November 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm said:
  
  I’d suggest you ask the gitorious mailing list, they might know.
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Regis on December 8, 2011 at 5:57 pm said:

Thanks Lucas for this tutorial.
I have successfully installed gitorious on an Ubuntu 11.10 machine. The only two changes I had to do: bundle did get installed in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin stomp did get installed in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin so I did modify the crontab to: crontab -e * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production and most importantly I have modified the /etc/init.d/stomp to: GEMS_HOME=”/usr/local” (used to be GEMS_HOME=”/usr”) Stomp was a bit tricky to find because gitorious is working even without stomp but it’s slow and adding users is not quite right. So my advice, check /var/log/apache2/error.log and if there is a line like that: connect failed: Connection refused – connect(2) will retry in 5 you are missing stomp
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Aravindan Chockalingam on December 29, 2011 at 7:54 pm said:

Nice work Lucas, Had some teething issues similar to jonathan’s. fixed all and its working fine now. Thanks!!!
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Sri Harsha on January 4, 2012 at 5:58 am said:

Thanks for the nice article. I am facing a problem with git submodule update it says:
$ git submodule update Cloning into public/javascripts/lib/buster-core… fatal: reference is not a tree: 1f8ac20fcbd75ff9dc6e537a90883e4103c1b877 Unable to checkout ’1f8ac20fcbd75ff9dc6e537a90883e4103c1b877′ in submodule path ‘public/javascripts/lib/buster-core’
Anyone else facing similar problem? Any ideas, how to resolve this?
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Sri Harsha on January 4, 2012 at 10:12 am said:

I ignored the error I got for git submodule update and completed the remaining steps, Gitorious seems to be working fine. I noticed one thing, I have used user ‘gitorious’ instead of ‘git’ so I had to edit the file /etc/init.d/stomp modify start() to look like below:
/bin/su – gitorious -c “$STOMP”
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Samuel Rivera on January 17, 2012 at 9:11 pm said:

I can’t get passed this command
bundle exec rake db:migrate
I received the following error:
root@zombihq:/var/www/gitorious# bundle exec rake db:migrate (in /var/www/gitorious) rake aborted! private method `split’ called for nil:NilClass
anyone has any ideas?
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- Lucas on January 17, 2012 at 9:18 pm said:
  
  What version of Ruby are you using? Sounds like either too old or too new… I installed it using Ruby 1.9.2…
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  - Samuel Rivera on January 17, 2012 at 9:21 pm said:
    
    Ruby 1.8.7
    originally i was using 11.10 and ruby 1.9.2 and ServerTime 1.2.3 would error out
    So i when back to 11.04 so i could use 1.8.7 like gitorious needs.
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    - Samuel Rivera on January 17, 2012 at 10:23 pm said:
      
      if its any help, instead of installing gitorious i installed a forked YouSource the only thing it adds as far as i know is private repos
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harry on January 19, 2012 at 6:47 pm said:
hello lucas
getting this error while running REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM=1 gem update –system == 1.8.15 / 2012-01-06
- 1 bug fix:
  - Don’t eager load yaml, it creates a bad loop. Fixes #256
system ubuntu 11.04 ( 32 bit)
Thanks
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harry on January 21, 2012 at 3:40 pm said:

Hello everyone, gettting this error after running this coomand : bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
Rebuilding configurations for production environment Available models are Comment, Repository, MergeRequest, and Project Generating SQL $ indexer –config ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’ –all Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
using config file ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’… WARNING: key ‘address’ is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf line 10; use ‘listen’ instead. indexing index ‘main’… ERROR: index ‘main’: sql_range_query: Unknown column ‘base_tags.name’ in ‘field list’ (DSN=mysql://root:***@localhost:3306/gitorious_database). total 0 docs, 0 bytes total 0.047 sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec total 0 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg total 0 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117) Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
using config file ‘/var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf’… WARNING: key ‘address’ is deprecated in /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf line 10; use ‘listen’ instead. listening on all interfaces, port=3312 WARNING: index ‘main’: preload: failed to open /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx//sphinx_index_main.sph: No such file or directory; NOT SERVING FATAL: no valid indexes to serve Failed to start Done Please restart your application containers
pls help me out
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- Lucas on January 21, 2012 at 3:43 pm said:
  
  Looks to me as if the file
  /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx//sphinx_index_main.sph
  should exist, or might not be writable. Have you tried doing a
  touch /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx//sphinx_index_main.sph
  when logged in with the Gitorious user?
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  - harry on January 21, 2012 at 5:30 pm said:
    
    yes i run this command : touch /var/www/gitorious/db/sphinx //sphinx_index_main.sph
    but still getting the same error
    no idea .
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    - harry on January 21, 2012 at 6:59 pm said:
      
      what i suppose to type in browser to open gitorious
      help me ..
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  - harry on January 21, 2012 at 6:48 pm said:
    
    i did everything right , sorry but im soo confused now .. that i dont know what i should type in web browser
    help me please
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David on January 27, 2012 at 5:46 pm said:

Great guide, the only one I’ve been through that actually works, thanks.
Now I am now trying to move the authentication onto LDAP using the instructions found here: http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/LdapIntegration but it throws out “TypeError: can’t convert String into Integer”. I’ve Googled around but have been unable to find an answer specific to Gitorious.
Have you tried to use LDAP with this configuration? Do you have any suggestions on how I can solve this problem
Thanks for any help David
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- Lucas on January 28, 2012 at 3:31 pm said:
  
  Hey there David,
  no, I haven’t tried LDAP integration myself, and unfortunately I have no better advice than to check the code where the TypeError occurs and try to fix it (and of course submit your fix to Gitorious :) With a bit of luck it won’t be hard to fix.
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elias shija on February 10, 2012 at 6:44 am said:

I was updating my laptop from version 10 to 11.04 but the problem is that it failed to restart lather than it is in the command window with some words which i failed to understand and work with it.”GNU GRUB version 1.98-1ubuntu10″ and the next line is minimal BASH-like line editing is supported .for the first word ,TAB lists is possible command completions.Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions” that is the words written so please i need your help to solve this problem please help me
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- Lucas on February 10, 2012 at 9:01 am said:
  
  Hey there. This post isn’t about installing (or updating to) Ubuntu 11.04, and I frankly don’t know anything about the updating process, so I’d suggest you ask your question in the Ubuntu Forums
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Frank Quednau on February 11, 2012 at 10:39 pm said:
Greetings, after some hiccups (I am a Linux noob) I got it all running. here my personal blunders:
- The thing with the rots stuff – I went through the step outlined in the comments to get the repository and install/pack the bundle again
- Not sure why, but the log files under /var/www/gitorious/log had incorrect permissions, had to chmod 0666 the log files.
- My ubuntu server did not respond to ssh requests, so I couldnt’t check anything in against the repos. After doing “apt-get install openssh-server” that part now also works
But all in all, thanks for being my guide in this dark alley of a typical “you have to know it” type of problem :)
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Jimmy B on February 17, 2012 at 1:42 am said:

So I finally found some time and a spare VM to get this installed onto. I have Ubuntu 11.04, completely fresh install. The guide worked wonderfully. I’ve got Gitorious up and running (sorta). I’ve set both gitorious_client_host and gitorious_host to git.cookiecache.com It seems to continue to fail in Safari, but everything seems to work (login, registering and such) in FireFox. That’s not the issue though, the issue is that after navigating through 1 or 2 pages everything crashes. Apache, MySQL, Postfix, SSHd, everything…has anyone else experienced this? I have setup my VPS container to use a 2.4GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 20GBs of disk space. It rarely goes over 0.5 load avg and 27% of memory used. Any ideas? Any other further information I can provide to help troubleshoot? Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
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Jesus on February 24, 2012 at 12:01 am said:

Hey, thanks for this writing. It worked like a charm the first time.
Mi gitorious is up and running, thanks!
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Chris on March 1, 2012 at 12:57 pm said:

Hi,
So far i’ve got the gitorious application running and everything works. My problem is that I’m unable to clone, push or pull repo’s. As if the git port is closed or non-existent even though i’ve setup the iptables.
Any help on what to do to get the GIT port working woul be appreciated!
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- Lucas on March 1, 2012 at 1:14 pm said:
  
  Have you checked if the ports are open through
  127.0.0.1
  ? I’d guess that some of the necessary services aren’t running. Gitorious relies on a number of daemons outside of the RoR application.
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v2k on March 5, 2012 at 11:36 pm said:

Thanks for the guide. I’ve got this setup and running on 11.10
I had to do this to get it running: vi /var/www/gitorious/config/ultrasphinx/production.conf # replace base_tags with tags
bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
It’s working now, but when I create repositories, it doesn’t work. It sits on “This repository is being created” forever and doesn’t do anything.
I then have to run “script/poller run” manually. I then get spammed with: NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01. Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:127.
The webpage then updates with: Sorry, something went wrong
Gitorious encountered an server error. We are automatically notified of errors and will look into it. If the error persists beyond what’s reasonable, let us know.
Files do get created in /var/www/gitorious/repositories; however, if I try to view a repository via gitorious, I get the same “something went wrong” error.
How do I actually find out what it’s failing on? Why do I have to run the poller manually?
My crontab is: * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
thanks.
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- njall on July 12, 2012 at 1:17 pm said:
  
  Try accessing it locally to see what the proper error is.
  If you’re using your full address like git.example.com it makes errors neat (and uninformative) whereas localhost will give you the error trace.
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v2k on March 6, 2012 at 12:00 am said:

looks like I found the error:
[code] ActionView::TemplateError (/var/www/gitorious/repositories/d51/8cf/0bdd7f4c0b0c147af4377552e0a38cc564.git) on line #46 of app/views/repositories/_overview.html.erb: 43: :locals => {:repository => repository} -%> 44: 45: 46: 47:
<
div class="branches"> 48:
<
ul class="branch_list"> 49:
Branches:
[/code]
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v2k on March 6, 2012 at 12:01 am said:

Looks like I found the error: http://slexy.org/view/s20WupakLn
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v2k on March 6, 2012 at 1:10 am said:

I go this working. Make sure your folder permissions are: git:www-data.
ie chown -R git:www-data gitorituous
Also, make sure the cron job is set on the git user.
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v2k on March 6, 2012 at 1:29 am said:

I had to add “script/poller run” to git’s crontab though… not sure how the poller is supposed to run normally.
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Jonas F. on March 17, 2012 at 11:24 pm said:

I had some trouble with missing tables.
http://pastebin.com/1vC3gszR
I hope you can help me.
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Thom on March 20, 2012 at 11:26 am said:

Hi,
Thank for this tuto, but I’ve a problem during the database creation with the command “bundle exec rake db:create” Couldn’t create database for {“encoding”=>”utf8″, “username”=>”gitorious”, “adapter”=>”mysql”, “database”=>”gitorious”, “host”=>”localhost”, “password”=>nil}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_unicode_ci (if you set the charset manually, make sure you have a matching collation)
Can you help me ?
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Mohnish on April 30, 2012 at 2:24 pm said:

Thanks for the very useful guide on setting up Gitorious on Ubuntu 11.04.
After referring to the link:- http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/LdapIntegration , I ran the script to test my ldap connection. That passed successfully without any issues. I am basically setting up Gitorious on my localbox.
Currently, I am making use of certs on my localbox for https. Now when I try to enter the same credentials during login, I get the below error:-
ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in SessionsController#create
ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken
App Trace:-
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/request_forgery_protection.rb:79:in
verify_authenticity_token'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:178:in
send’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:178:in
evaluate_method'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:166:in
call’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:225:in
call'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:629:in
run_before_filters’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:615:in
call_filters'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:610:in
perform_action_without_benchmark’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in
perform_action_without_rescue'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in
ms’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:308:in
realtime'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/benchmark.rb:17:in
ms’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in
perform_action_without_rescue'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:160:in
perform_action_without_flash’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/flash.rb:146:in
perform_action'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:532:in
send’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:532:in
process_without_filters'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:606:in
process’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:391:in
process'
/var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:386:in
call’ /var/www/gitorious/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing/route_set.rb:437:in `call’ .
Any ideas on how I can over come this ?
Currently my gitorious_host is localhost.local , after referring to an earlier comment (http://coding-journal.com/installing-gitorious-on-ubuntu-11-04/#comment-76 ) . I am making use of apache2 server, thus my gitorious_client_host is localhost .
I was thinking if I disable SSL on localhost in my gitorious.yml, it might be of some help. If disabling SSL is the way, do I need to do it anywhere else as well ?. I was thinking of this on the grounds that anyways there wouldn’t be many security concerns if we disable https on localhost(to my best knowledge).
If there are other work arounds, kindly suggest.
Thank you..
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adhown on May 2, 2012 at 12:33 pm said:

Hi, thanks for tutor.. but I have problem when I do /etc/init.d/git-daemon start .. the error is
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:127.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:127.
NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use Specification.add_spec. It will be removed on or after 2011-11-01.
Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec called from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/source_index.rb:127.
/var/www/gitorious/script/git-daemon:18:in `expand_path': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
from /var/www/gitorious/script/git-daemon:18
failure
:( can You help me or tell what happen, wether I miss some configuration?
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- Lucas on May 2, 2012 at 1:13 pm said:
  
  Apparently you have not configured the “repository_base_path” option.
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  - adhown on May 3, 2012 at 3:20 am said:
    
    hy lucas, thanks for your help. Thats error have been fixed.. but I have another problem, when I try to login to my gitorious server it get error “500 Internal Server Error” , maybe you know what happen or I miss some configuration again? thanks before lucas.
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Olivier on May 16, 2012 at 9:51 am said:

Hi,
Thanks for your good Tutorial. It’s great ! But, …. I have a problem. I can go to Gitorious on HTTPS://. I can login with my account LDAPS has gitorious, but when I am connected I can’t create project. I have this message on my log (log/production.log) ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Mysql::Error: Lock wait timeout exceeded; … AND ** ultrasphinx: configuration file not found for “production” environment ** ultrasphinx: please run ‘rake ultrasphinx:configure’ ** ultrasphinx: spelling support not available (raspell configuration raised “u$ Invalid subdomain name localhost/gitorious. Session cookies will not work!
I can not find a solution. Can you help me ?
And an other question. Before I had her log too, but I never saw them and I do not know why. Do you know what they mean? (production.log) Errno::EPIPE (Broken pipe): ….
Thanks for your help in advanced and excuse me for my english because I speak french….
Bye
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- Lucas on May 16, 2012 at 12:50 pm said:
  Hi Olivier,
  I can only guess what the problem is here, but you could try the following:
  1. Change the gitorious domain to something like “gitorious.dev” instead of “localhost”, everything without a dot or more than one dot in it may cause problems (at least it did for me)
  2. Did you run
    rake ultrasphinx:configure
    and if so, what did it say?
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  - Olivier on May 21, 2012 at 10:19 am said:
    
    Hi Lucas,
    Thanks for your answer. It’s Ok for my subdomain. Thanks
    For ultrasphinx I still have the problem and I can’t create an new project.
    –> production.log
    ** ultrasphinx: spelling support not available (raspell configuration raised “uninitialized constant Ultrasphinx::Spell::Aspell”)
    For ultrasphinx, I execute this command $ export RAILS_ENV=production && bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap With this command I have an error “Rebuilding configurations for production environment ERROR: index ‘main’: sql_range_query: Unknown column ‘base_tags.name’ in ‘field list’ (DSN=mysql://root:***@localhost:3306/gitorious_production). Failed to start”
    And for information $bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:configure Rebuilding configurations for production environment Available models are Comment, Repository, MergeRequest, and Project Generating SQL
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    - Olivier on May 21, 2012 at 11:38 am said:
      
      I execute this command $ aptitude install libaspell-dev $ gem install raspell
      but it’s not a solution….. I can’t create an new project and when I try I have always this log: ** ultrasphinx: spelling support not available (raspell configuration raised “uninitialized constant Ultrasphinx::Spell::Aspell”)
      If you want you can read that http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/gitorious-spelling-problems.htm
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Olivier on May 21, 2012 at 11:36 am said:

I execute this command $ aptitude install libaspell-dev $ gem install raspell
but it’s not a solution….. I can’t create an new project and when I try I have always this log: ** ultrasphinx: spelling support not available (raspell configuration raised “uninitialized constant Ultrasphinx::Spell::Aspell”)
If you want you can read that http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/gitorious-spelling-problems.htm
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Olivier on May 21, 2012 at 12:17 pm said:

Excuse me for all these questions…. I cannot login with user admin. Why ? Yet, the script to create the admin is successful and the admin is in the database.
Thanks in advanced Olivier
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George Boot on May 21, 2012 at 1:13 pm said:

I followed this tut for Ubuntu 12.04, and it seems te work, except for one thing: repo’s aren’t actual being created. I looked in the /var/www/gitorious/repositories but it is empty. On my screen i keep getting the message “This repository is being created, it will be ready pretty soon…” for over an hour now..
Have you got any suggestion whats wrong? Thanks!
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- Lucas on May 21, 2012 at 2:09 pm said:
  
  Have you checked the permissions and ownership of your repositiories folder? Other than that, you’d have to check the logs for an error message which indicates what is going on, because I didn’t run into that problem yet.
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  - George Boot on May 21, 2012 at 2:12 pm said:
    
    I double checked it by chown -Rf git:git /var/www/gitorious
    In wich logs do you suggest me to look?
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    - Lucas on May 21, 2012 at 2:17 pm said:
      
      I really can’t say because I can’t current access a machine on which Gitorious is installed. If I remember correctly, there is a “logs/” directory in the Gitorious project folder, which is probably a good place to start. I think that they use DelayedJobs to create the repositories, and its logs may not show up in the main “production.log”, that would be for you to investigate.
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      - Gustavo Chaves on June 8, 2012 at 9:49 pm said:
        
        I had the same issue. The problem was that the poller daemon wasn’t running. The /etc/init.d/git-poller script invokes ruby directly and it should invoke it via “bundle exec” instead.
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Xinbenlv on July 4, 2012 at 1:49 am said:

First I would like to thank the author. Secondly, LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
the version number of passenger should be 3.0.13 when I install it on Amazon EC2 12.04 Server
Thirdly, $ crontab -e * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production should be $ crontab -e and then add * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production Actually I am suggesting running ultrasphinx:index once every hour.
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- Lucas on July 9, 2012 at 1:07 pm said:
  
  Thanks for your feedback. I changed the “passenger” part so that it is clear that one should use the output from the passenger install script, and not the example I pasted.
  Could you explain what issues you are having with the crontab command? Because the command you posted seems to be the same I used in the post, and it runs sphinx every minute, as far as I know.
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Njall on July 9, 2012 at 11:31 am said:

Hi, Great guide. Something quite catasrophic happened though. Everything seemed to go swimmingly and then I rebooted and couldn’t login to my computer -_- I assume it’s the server being initialized, faulting and returning me back to the login page very quickly. Anyway, I’ve managed to login through a different account and su my way back in. On attempting to start apache I’m getting this error:
apache2ctl restart
apache2: Syntax error on line 210 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.load: Cannot load /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so into server: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Any ideas/advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Njall
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- Lucas on July 9, 2012 at 1:09 pm said:
  
  This looks similar to the trouble Xinbenlv was having. Did you copy the content for “passenger.load” from this page or from the output of the passenger install script? If you copied it from this page, try running the install script again :)
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Muthuvel on August 18, 2012 at 1:01 pm said:

The below step giving error in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM=1 gem update –system
Updating RubyGems Updating rubygems-update ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::GemNotFoundException) Could not find a valid gem ‘rubygems-update’ (1.8.24) locally or in a repository
Any pointer to this problem ?
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Amit on August 21, 2012 at 1:44 pm said:

Hello Sir,
Your guide is really very good but after all this instruction i got this error. Please help me.
We are currently experiencing a problem with git where, when a user attempts to create a new project or attempts to add a new key the browser spins forever without completing the action
Thanks
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matyas on August 29, 2012 at 6:18 pm said:

Nice tutorial. I would like to share a special behavior. In order to avoid strange issues by “rake db:*” commands, apply quotation for the passwords in database.yml Ex: mysql password = !my.password in /gittorius/config/database.yml write ‘!my.password’, otherwise rake will fail
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Jes Struck on October 1, 2012 at 4:23 pm said:

Hey i keep getting this stupid error Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. in my apache error.log after installing gitorious when i try to browse the site i created a now this might be in the apche configuration but i hope you’ll help out any way
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- Lucas Jenß on October 1, 2012 at 4:30 pm said:
  
  This sounds a bit like a configuration issue with hostnames or the like. Make sure that the “gitorious_host” config parameter is set correctly. Also check the URL you are accessing the gitorious installation with, and make sure it matches the “gitorious_host” setting. If all that is the case, check if the internal links being generated by Gitorious somehow point to another URL.
  Another possibility might be that Gitorious actually needs more than 10 internal redirects at some point (which I think is unlikely, but not impossible), so you might try to raise your Apache setting to 100, and if it works then, iteratively decrease it until you found the value that Gitorious requires, and set it to what you’ve found + 10 (just to be sure :D).
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  - Jes Struck on October 4, 2012 at 12:57 pm said:
    
    Ok i made sure that hostname and gitorious_host was the same, but it stille wont work keep getting 500 internal erro at last i added Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all to both gitorious and gitorius-ssl site files in the apache2/sites-enabled and then it all worked. Could you tell me why this was nessecary
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Austin on October 14, 2012 at 12:05 am said:

Alright so when i run
export RAILS_ENV=production && \ bundle exec rake db:create && \ bundle exec rake db:migrate && \ bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
I Get:
(in /srv/www/gitorious) rake aborted! Unknown database ‘gitorious_production’ /srv/www/gitorious/Rakefile:10:in `require’ (See full trace by running task with –trace) root@Wolf-Server:/srv/www/gitorious#
I have tried starting over several times. What i do wrong
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Austin on October 14, 2012 at 12:46 am said:

Forget about my last post. I just made the database my self and it started filling but now i get this error Mysql::Error: Table ‘gitorious_production.content_memberships’ doesn’t exist: SELECT * FROM
content_memberships
Where is it not creating the table
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- sn00p on October 23, 2012 at 5:11 am said:
  
  It is just a commit with broken logic. I’ve fixed it such way:
  ~/# cat gitorious/db/migrate/20120223093906_make_project_membership_polymorphic_on_subject.rb
  class ProjectMembership < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :project belongs_to :member, :polymorphic => true end
  class MakeProjectMembershipPolymorphicOnSubject < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up
  rename_table :project_memberships, :content_memberships
  add_column :content_memberships, :content_type, :string ProjectMembership.all.each do |pm| pm.content_type = "Project" pm.save! end
  rename_column :content_memberships, :project_id, :content_id
  end
  # Destructive – removes any non-project memberships def self.down rename_table :content_memberships, :project_memberships
  ProjectMembership.all.each do |pm| pm.delete if pm.content_type != "Project" end
  remove_column :project_memberships, :content_type rename_column :project_memberships, :content_id, :project_id
  end end
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Marco Bazzoni on October 22, 2012 at 10:39 am said:

I have the same problem as Austin: “Mysql::Error: Table ‘gitorious_production.content_memberships’ doesn’t exist: SELECT * FROM…”. I am a perfect “newbe” in ruby but I suspect somehow the command “bundle exec rake db:create” does not do all its jobs!!!! I’ve checked in my schema.db file in db folder and at line 79 I have tabel creation.
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celogeek on December 26, 2012 at 5:36 pm said:

Hi, I have made an auto-installer :
http://blog.celogeek.com/201211/272/gitorious-installer-for-ubuntu/
And the repos for the installer :
https://gitorious.celogeek.com/gitorious-installer
Could you try it ?
It work with Ubuntu 12.10
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Semir on March 12, 2013 at 9:45 am said:

Hi, Great article but I got “ELF file OS ABI invalid” when trying to load the passenger module. I use debian squeeze which has a packaged passenger mod, with that it works fine: # apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
Bests, Semir
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Goyo on April 7, 2013 at 11:26 pm said:

Hello!
I have a problem creating the admin user in the last step of your tutorial. The error is this:
$ env RAILS_ENV=production ruby1.8 script/create_admin /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.18/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:21:in
add_frozen_gem_path': undefined method
source_index’ for Gem:Module (NoMethodError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.18/lib/initializer.rb:298:in
add_gem_load_paths'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.18/lib/initializer.rb:132:in
process’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.18/lib/initializer.rb:113:in
send'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.18/lib/initializer.rb:113:in
run’ from ./script/../config/environment.rb:23 from script/create_admin:2:in `require’ from script/create_admin:2
Can you help me?
Thanks
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