From 06c0025f16480fce831362317ed6427d51ab3c64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9my=20Coutable?= Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:10:25 +0100 Subject: Improving the "Environment variables" administration doc --- doc/administration/environment_variables.md | 60 ++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/administration/environment_variables.md') diff --git a/doc/administration/environment_variables.md b/doc/administration/environment_variables.md index 0faef526d43..b0aa420e055 100644 --- a/doc/administration/environment_variables.md +++ b/doc/administration/environment_variables.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Introduction -Commonly people configure GitLab via the gitlab.rb configuration file in the Omnibus package. +Commonly people configure GitLab via the `gitlab.rb` configuration file in the Omnibus package. But if you prefer to use environment variables we allow that too. @@ -10,45 +10,45 @@ But if you prefer to use environment variables we allow that too. Variable | Type | Explanation -------- | ---- | ----------- -GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD | string | sets the password for the `root` user on installation -GITLAB_HOST | url | hostname of the GitLab server includes http or https -RAILS_ENV | production / development / staging / test | Rails environment -DATABASE_URL | url | For example: postgresql://localhost/blog_development?pool=5 -GITLAB_EMAIL_FROM | email | Email address used in the "From" field in mails sent by GitLab -GITLAB_EMAIL_DISPLAY_NAME | string | Name used in the "From" field in mails sent by GitLab -GITLAB_EMAIL_REPLY_TO | email | Email address used in the "Reply-To" field in mails sent by GitLab -GITLAB_UNICORN_MEMORY_MIN | integer | The minimum memory threshold (in bytes) for the Unicorn worker killer -GITLAB_UNICORN_MEMORY_MAX | integer | The maximum memory threshold (in bytes) for the Unicorn worker killer +`GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD` | string | Sets the password for the `root` user on installation +`GITLAB_HOST` | url | Hostname of the GitLab server includes http or https +`RAILS_ENV` | production / development / staging / test | Rails environment +`DATABASE_URL` | url | For example: postgresql://localhost/blog_development +`GITLAB_EMAIL_FROM` | email | Email address used in the "From" field in mails sent by GitLab +`GITLAB_EMAIL_DISPLAY_NAME` | string | Name used in the "From" field in mails sent by GitLab +`GITLAB_EMAIL_REPLY_TO` | email | Email address used in the "Reply-To" field in mails sent by GitLab +`GITLAB_UNICORN_MEMORY_MIN` | integer | The minimum memory threshold (in bytes) for the Unicorn worker killer +`GITLAB_UNICORN_MEMORY_MAX` | integer | The maximum memory threshold (in bytes) for the Unicorn worker killer ## Complete database variables -As explained in the [Heroku documentation](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails-database-connection-behavior) the DATABASE_URL doesn't let you set: +The recommended way of specifying your database connection information is to set +the `DATABASE_URL` environment variable. This variable only holds connection +information (adapter, database, username, password, host and port), but not +behavior information (encoding, pool). If you don't want to use `DATABASE_URL` +and/or want to set database behavior information, you will have to: -- adapter -- database -- username -- password -- host -- port +- copy our template `config/database.yml` file: `cp config/database.yml.env config/database.yml` +- set a value for some `GITLAB_DATABASE_XXX` variables -To do so please `cp config/database.yml.env config/database.yml` and use the following variables: +The list of `GITLAB_DATABASE_XXX` variables that you can set is as follow: -Variable | Default ---- | --- -GITLAB_DATABASE_ADAPTER | postgresql -GITLAB_DATABASE_ENCODING | unicode -GITLAB_DATABASE_DATABASE | gitlab_#{ENV['RAILS_ENV'] -GITLAB_DATABASE_POOL | 10 -GITLAB_DATABASE_USERNAME | root -GITLAB_DATABASE_PASSWORD | -GITLAB_DATABASE_HOST | localhost -GITLAB_DATABASE_PORT | 5432 +Variable | Default value | Overridden by `DATABASE_URL`? +--- | --- | --- +`GITLAB_DATABASE_ADAPTER` | `postgresql` | Yes +`GITLAB_DATABASE_DATABASE` | `gitlab_#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']` | Yes +`GITLAB_DATABASE_USERNAME` | `root` | Yes +`GITLAB_DATABASE_PASSWORD` | None | Yes +`GITLAB_DATABASE_HOST` | `localhost` | Yes +`GITLAB_DATABASE_PORT` | `5432` | Yes +`GITLAB_DATABASE_ENCODING` | `unicode` | No +`GITLAB_DATABASE_POOL` | `10` | No ## Adding more variables We welcome merge requests to make more settings configurable via variables. -Please make changes in the file config/initializers/1_settings.rb -Please stick to the naming scheme "GITLAB_#{name 1_settings.rb in upper case}". +Please make changes in the `config/initializers/1_settings.rb` file. +Please stick to the naming scheme `GITLAB_#{name in 1_settings.rb in upper case}`. ## Omnibus configuration -- cgit v1.2.3