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+# Move home directory from /home/git to /var/lib/git
+
+### 0. Stop services
+
+```bash
+service gitlab stop
+service nginx stop
+```
+
+### 1. Update passwd/group file
+
+Update the `/etc/group` file, and change the gid of the group
+
+```bash
+git:x:500:
+```
+or you can run the following command
+
+```bash
+groupmod -g 500 git
+```
+
+Amended the `/etc/passwd` file to change the uid, gid and the home directory for git
+
+```bash
+git:x:500:500:GitLab,,,:/var/lib/git:/bin/bash
+```
+or you can run the following command
+
+```bash
+usermod -d /var/lib/git -g 500 -u 500 git
+```
+
+### 2. Move the git folder
+
+```bash
+cp -r /home/git /var/lib/
+```
+
+### 3. Change permissions to use the new uid/gid
+
+```bash
+chown -R git:git /var/lib/git
+```
+
+### 4. Update Gitlab config files
+update `~git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml`, using the following command
+
+```bash
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' ~git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml
+```
+
+You should see the following difference after running the command
+
+```diff
+--- gitlab.yml.example  2013-12-20 16:27:14.784403409 -0500
++++ gitlab.yml  2014-01-05 15:11:17.706013229 -0500
+@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@
+   # GitLab Satellites
+   satellites:
+     # Relative paths are relative to Rails.root (default: tmp/repo_satellites/)
+-    path: /home/git/gitlab-satellites/
++    path: /var/lib/git/gitlab-satellites/
+ 
+   ## Backup
+@@ -174,11 +175,11 @@
+ 
+   ## GitLab Shell settings
+   gitlab_shell:
+-    path: /home/git/gitlab-shell/
++    path: /var/lib/git/gitlab-shell/
+ 
+     # REPOS_PATH MUST NOT BE A SYMLINK!!!
+-    repos_path: /home/git/repositories/
+-    hooks_path: /home/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
++    repos_path: /var/lib/git/repositories/
++    hooks_path: /var/lib/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
+ 
+     # Git over HTTP
+     upload_pack: true
+```
+Update `~git/gitlab/config/unicorb.rb`, using the following command
+
+```bash
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' ~git/gitlab/config/unicorn.rb
+```
+
+You should see the following difference after running the command
+
+```diff
+--- unicorn.rb.example  2013-12-20 16:27:14.795402739 -0500
++++ unicorn.rb  2014-01-07 07:47:33.786389865 -0500
+@@ -32,24 +32,24 @@
+ 
+ # Help ensure your application will always spawn in the symlinked
+ # "current" directory that Capistrano sets up.
+-working_directory "/home/git/gitlab" # available in 0.94.0+
++working_directory "/var/lib/git/gitlab" # available in 0.94.0+
+ 
+ # listen on both a Unix domain socket and a TCP port,
+ # we use a shorter backlog for quicker failover when busy
+-listen "/home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket", :backlog => 64
++listen "/var/lib/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab.socket", :backlog => 64
+ listen "127.0.0.1:8080", :tcp_nopush => true
+ 
+ # nuke workers after 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds (the default)
+ timeout 30
+ 
+ # feel free to point this anywhere accessible on the filesystem
+-pid "/home/git/gitlab/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid"
++pid "/var/lib/git/gitlab/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid"
+ 
+ # By default, the Unicorn logger will write to stderr.
+ # Additionally, some applications/frameworks log to stderr or stdout,
+ # so prevent them from going to /dev/null when daemonized here:
+-stderr_path "/home/git/gitlab/log/unicorn.stderr.log"
+-stdout_path "/home/git/gitlab/log/unicorn.stdout.log"
++stderr_path "/var/lib/git/gitlab/log/unicorn.stderr.log"
++stdout_path "/var/lib/git/gitlab/log/unicorn.stdout.log"
+ 
+ # combine Ruby 2.0.0dev or REE with "preload_app true" for memory savings
+ # http://rubyenterpriseedition.com/faq.html#adapt_apps_for_cow
+```
+
+### 5. Update Gitlab shell config file
+update `~git/gitlab-shell/config.yml`, using the following command
+
+```bash
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' ~git/gitlab-shell/config.yml
+```
+
+You should see the following difference after running the command
+
+```diff
+--- config.yml.old      2014-01-07 09:00:41.522352570 -0500
++++ config.yml  2014-01-05 15:12:59.695840545 -0500
+@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@
+ # Give the canonicalized absolute pathname,
+ # REPOS_PATH MUST NOT CONTAIN ANY SYMLINK!!!
+ # Check twice that none of the components is a symlink, including "/home".
+-repos_path: "/home/git/repositories"
++repos_path: "/var/lib/git/repositories"
+ 
+ # File used as authorized_keys for gitlab user
+-auth_file: "/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys"
++auth_file: "/var/lib/git/.ssh/authorized_keys"
+ 
+ # Redis settings used for pushing commit notices to gitlab
+ redis:
+```
+
+### 6. Update authorized_keys
+
+Update the `/var/lib/git/.ssh/authorized_keys`, using the following command
+
+```bash
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' ~git/.ssh/authorized_keys
+```
+
+### 7. Update nginx config file
+
+update `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gitlab`, using the following command
+
+```bash
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gitlab
+```
+
+### 8. Add/Update gitlab service and default files
+
+We need to apply the following patch to `/etc/init.d/gitlab`, This has been submitted as a 
+PR already to gitlabhq. This enables to read the default file, and initialises other variables.
+Without this diff, other variables then also need to be defined in `/etc/default/gitlab`
+
+```diff
+--- gitlab      2013-12-20 16:27:14.919395198 -0500
++++ /etc/init.d/gitlab  2014-01-06 08:51:18.253120785 -0500
+@@ -31,14 +31,15 @@
+ # internal /bin/sh variables such as PATH, EDITOR or SHELL.
+ app_user="git"
+ app_root="/home/$app_user/gitlab"
++
++# Read configuration variable file if it is present
++test -f /etc/default/gitlab && . /etc/default/gitlab
++
+ pid_path="$app_root/tmp/pids"
+ socket_path="$app_root/tmp/sockets"
+ web_server_pid_path="$pid_path/unicorn.pid"
+ sidekiq_pid_path="$pid_path/sidekiq.pid"
+ 
+-# Read configuration variable file if it is present
+-test -f /etc/default/gitlab && . /etc/default/gitlab
+-
+ # Switch to the app_user if it is not he/she who is running the script.
+ if [ "$USER" != "$app_user" ]; then
+   sudo -u "$app_user" -H -i $0 "$@"; exit;
+```
+
+If you haven't already, copy the service default file, then do so, and then update the file to point to the new home directory
+
+```bash
+cp ~git/gitlab/lib/support/init.d/gitlab.default.example /etc/default/gitlab
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' /etc/default/gitlab
+```
+
+### 9. Update gitlab-shell hooks
+
+The file `~git/gitlab-shell/support/rewrite-hooks.sh`, has the home directory hardcoded, so we need to update this file as well
+
+```bash
+sed -i -e 's/\/home/\/var\/lib/g' ~git/gitlab-shell/support/rewrite-hooks.sh
+```
+
+Now we update all the hooks
+
+```bash
+cd ~git
+sudo -u git -H gitlab-shell/support/rewrite-hooks.sh
+```
+
+### 10. Restart application
+
+```bash
+sudo service gitlab restart
+sudo service nginx restart
+```
+
+### 11. Check application status
+
+Check if GitLab and its environment are configured correctly:
+
+    cd ~git/gitlab
+    sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production
+
+To make sure you didn't miss anything run a more thorough check with:
+
+    cd ~git/gitlab
+    sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production
+
+### 12. Remove old home
+
+Once you are happy that everything is now working in the new directory, you can remove the old `/home/git`
+
+    rm -rf /home/git