From 9cad2d8eb69e0ed45385c6f2c449a146548347c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacob Vosmaer <contact@jacobvosmaer.nl>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:43:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add hints for when GitLab is unreachable

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 README.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c3c4e5c..d4bab93 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ You can login as an admin user with username `root` and password `5iveL!fe`.
 
 ### Common installation problems
 
+#### GitLab is unreachable in my browser
+
+Try [specifying](#configuring-the-external-url-for-gitlab) an `external_url` in
+`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`. Also check your firewall settings; port 80 (HTTP) or
+443 (HTTPS) might be closed on your GitLab server.
+
 #### Reconfigure freezes at `ruby_block[supervise_redis_sleep] action run`
 
 This happens when Runit has not been installed succesfully during `gitlab-ctl
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libgit2 0.21.2