Commit acf7ae5e authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis Committed by James Edwards-Jones

Add info about the pages daemon

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## Architecture
## The GitLab Pages daemon
GitLab uses a separate tool ([gitlab-pages]), a simple HTTP server written in
Go that serves GitLab Pages with CNAMEs and SNI using HTTP/HTTP2. You are
encouraged to read its [README][pages-readme] to fully understand how it works.
Starting from GitLab EE 8.5, Pages make use of a separate tool ([gitlab-pages]),
a simple HTTP server written in Go that serves GitLab Pages with CNAMEs and SNI
using HTTP/HTTP2. You are encouraged to read its [README][pages-readme] to fully
understand how it works.
What is supported when using the pages daemon:
- Multiple domains per-project
- One TLS certificate per-domain
- Validation of certificate
- Validation of certificate chain
- Validation of private key against certificate
---
In the case of custom domains, the Pages daemon needs to listen on ports `80`
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.
[`path`]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/8-5-stable-ee/config/gitlab.yml.example#L155
### Install the Pages daemon
**Install the Pages daemon on a source installation**
```
cd /home/git
sudo -u git -H git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages.git
cd gitlab-pages
sudo -u git -H git checkout 0.2.0
sudo -u git -H make
```
**Install the Pages daemon on Omnibus**
The `gitlab-pages` daemon is included in the Omnibus package.
[pages-readme]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/blob/master/README.md
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