Changing port for unicorn

Question

I have set up gitlab as described in this tutorial: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/6-4-stable/doc/install/installation.md

Now I need to change the port unicorn is listening to. I have changed the unicorn.rb file. However, unicorn is still trying to connect to the 8080 port.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You need to check the logs when restarting Unicorn (as in log/unicorn.stderr.log), after changing config/unicorn.rb.

You will see the root cause (like for instance issue 2236)

As in issue 4928, make sure unicorn was stopped in the first place (same in issue 5451).

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Update Q4 2017 (3 years later)

Markus Piipari reports in this answer using wiht GitLab 10.4 the settings:

unicorn['port'] = 8081
gitlab_workhorse['auth_backend'] = "http://localhost:8081"

Then running:

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
sudo gitlab-ctl restart

That should be enough change the unicorn port.