I had to restore a gitlab installation and after that I had to recover admin rights.

So I needed to go through gitlab-rails and the console, and it requires a bit of patience before the prompt shows up

root@testgitlab:~# gitlab-rails console production
Loading production environment (Rails 4.2.10 …

So I've had this pelican site for .. ehm.. $time ..

First .gitlab-ci.yml was easy, just use the basic stuff from examples, but then I needed some extra stuff.

Had to make a requirements.txt to add a few basic python packages (which pulls in an extra dusin).

requirements.txt:

pelican …

So I've been struggling with getting TLS working right on my gitlab-pages, all the errors I got were some ~weird~ handshake errors.

140658708418368:error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error:s23_clnt.c:769:

And querying with curl really didn't offer many clues as to what might be wrong …

So, having played around with GitLab for a while, I figured it was time to upgrade....

So clicked around for a bit, tried with a server still not used by anyone for any projects, and completely screwed it up. But I did learn one very useful lesson there, when I'm …