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authorSean McGivern <sean@mcgivern.me.uk>2017-07-27 11:03:29 +0000
committerSean McGivern <sean@mcgivern.me.uk>2017-07-27 11:03:29 +0000
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Merge branch 'HA-external-urls-docs' into 'master'
Add note on external url setting for HA clusters. See merge request !13089
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@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ for each GitLab application server in your environment.
gitlab_rails['redis_host'] = '10.1.0.6' # IP/hostname of Redis server
gitlab_rails['redis_password'] = 'Redis Password'
```
+
+ > **Note:** To maintain uniformity of links across HA clusters, the `external_url`
+ on the master as well as all secondary application servers should point to the
+ eventual url that users will use to access GitLab. In a typical HA setup,
+ this will be the url of the load balancer which will route traffic to all
+ GitLab application servers in the HA cluster.
1. Run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` to compile the configuration.