Server-side Gitlab URL rewriting?

Question

Our old BitBucket server had a URL like this,

• https://bitbucket.acme.net/scm/acmegroup/acme-project.git

And, we're wanting to move to GitLab with a DNS switch which has a different URL-convention namely

• https://gitlab.acme.net/acmegroup/acme-project.git

The /scm/ is what I'd like to fix. Is there a way to rewrite URLs through configuration of the GitLab server such that I can make

• https://gitlab.acme.net/scm/acmegroup/acme-project.git

Redirect to

• https://gitlab.acme.net/acmegroup/acme-project.git

Note, I know I can change the "Custom Git clone URL for HTTP(S)" and "Replaces the clone URL root" under GitLab's admin/application_settings/general.

Answer 1

GitLab omnibus and self-managed installs ship with NGINX which is exposed and documented here,

• https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/nginx.html#inserting-custom-nginx-settings-into-the-gitlab-server-block

You basically edit the gitlab.rb file, edit nginx['custom_gitlab_server_config'] and then rerun gitlab-ctl reconfigure to regenerate the nginx confs and restart nginx.