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@@ -67,12 +67,18 @@ and/or `443`. For that reason, there is some flexibility in the way which you
can set it up, so you basically have three choices:
1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on a secondary IP
-1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on the same IP
- but on different ports. In that case, you will have to proxy the traffic with
- a loadbalancer.
1. Run the pages daemon in a separate server. In that case, the Pages [`path`]
must also be present in the server that the pages daemon is installed, so
you will have to share it via network.
+1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on the same IP
+ but on different ports. In that case, you will have to proxy the traffic with
+ a loadbalancer. If you choose that route note that you should use TCP load
+ balancing for HTTPS. If you use TLS-termination (HTTPS-load balancing) the
+ pages will not be able to be served with user provided certificates. For
+ HTTP it's OK to use HTTP or TCP load balancing.
+
+In this document, we will proceed assuming the first option. First let's
+install the pages daemon.
[`path`]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/8-5-stable-ee/config/gitlab.yml.example#L155