Thank you Sytse I'm still struggling after reading that and trying so many things.
Here's my nginx config. upstream gitlab { server unix:/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/sockets/gitlab.socket fail_timeout=0; } server { listen 0.0.0.0:80; listen [::]:80 default_server; server_name git.myserver.com.au; server_tokens off; return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri; access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log; } server { listen 0.0.0.0:443 ssl; listen [::]:443 ssl default_server; server_name git.myserver.com.au; server_tokens off; root /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/public; client_max_body_size 20m; ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/git_myserver_com_au.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/git_myserver_com_au.key; ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4" ; ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; ssl_session_timeout 5m; access_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/gitlab_error.log; location / { try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @gitlab; } location @gitlab { gzip off; proxy_read_timeout 300; proxy_connect_timeout 300; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_set_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN; proxy_pass http://gitlab; } I don't find any errors in nginx, but I get a loop when visiting the page; eg. xx.xxx.212.89 - - [24/Jan/2015:14:49:36 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 178 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0" *repeat many time* :( please help -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/f0f2fae9-f605-41b5-8436-abd7dd2bcd31%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.