Gitlab API Access Connection timed out <p>I just installed Gitlab and I have an error during the gitlab-shell self check.</p> <p>The command returns : </p> <pre><code>root@git:/home/git/gitlab# sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production Checking Environment ... Git configured for git user? ... yes Checking Environment ... Finished Checking GitLab Shell ... GitLab Shell version &gt;= 1.9.3 ? ... OK (1.9.3) Repo base directory exists? ... yes Repo base directory is a symlink? ... no Repo base owned by git:git? ... yes Repo base access is drwxrws---? ... yes Satellites access is drwxr-x---? ... yes update hook up-to-date? ... yes update hooks in repos are links: ... Thibaud / thibaud-dauce ... repository is empty Running /home/git/gitlab-shell/bin/check Check GitLab API access: /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:878:in `initialize': Connection timed out - connect(2) (Errno::ETIMEDOUT) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:878:in `open' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:878:in `block in connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/timeout.rb:52:in `timeout' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:877:in `connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:862:in `do_start' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:851:in `start' from /home/git/gitlab-shell/lib/gitlab_net.rb:76:in `get' from /home/git/gitlab-shell/lib/gitlab_net.rb:43:in `check' from /home/git/gitlab-shell/bin/check:11:in `&lt;main&gt;' gitlab-shell self-check failed Try fixing it: Make sure GitLab is running; Check the gitlab-shell configuration file: sudo -u git -H editor /home/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml Please fix the error above and rerun the checks. Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished Checking Sidekiq ... Running? ... yes Number of Sidekiq processes ... 1 Checking Sidekiq ... Finished Checking LDAP ... LDAP is disabled in config/gitlab.yml Checking LDAP ... Finished Checking GitLab ... Database config exists? ... yes Database is SQLite ... no All migrations up? ... yes Database contains orphaned UsersGroups? ... no GitLab config exists? ... yes GitLab config outdated? ... no Log directory writable? ... yes Tmp directory writable? ... yes Init script exists? ... yes Init script up-to-date? ... yes projects have namespace: ... Thibaud / thibaud-dauce ... yes Projects have satellites? ... Thibaud / thibaud-dauce ... can't create, repository is empty Redis version &gt;= 2.0.0? ... yes Your git bin path is "/usr/bin/git" Git version &gt;= 1.7.10 ? ... yes (1.7.10) Checking GitLab ... Finished </code></pre> <p>Of course, Gitlab is running :</p> <pre><code>root@git:/home/git/gitlab# service gitlab status The GitLab Unicorn web server with pid 1543 is running. The GitLab Sidekiq job dispatcher with pid 1736 is running. GitLab and all its components are up and running. </code></pre> <p>And my config file :</p> <pre><code>root@git:/home/git/gitlab# sudo -u git -H cat /home/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml # GitLab user. git by default user: git # Url to gitlab instance. Used for api calls. Should end with a slash. gitlab_url: "http://git.thibaud-dauce.fr/" http_settings: # user: someone # password: somepass # ca_file: /etc/ssl/cert.pem # ca_path: /etc/pki/tls/certs self_signed_cert: false # Repositories path # 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" # File used as authorized_keys for gitlab user auth_file: "/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys" # Redis settings used for pushing commit notices to gitlab redis: bin: /usr/bin/redis-cli host: 89.234.146.59 port: 6379 # socket: /tmp/redis.socket # Only define this if you want to use sockets namespace: resque:gitlab # Log file. # Default is gitlab-shell.log in the root directory. # log_file: "/home/git/gitlab-shell/gitlab-shell.log" # Log level. INFO by default log_level: INFO # Audit usernames. # Set to true to see real usernames in the logs instead of key ids, which is easier to follow, but # incurs an extra API call on every gitlab-shell command. audit_usernames: false </code></pre> <p>I already try to replace in Redis conf <code>host: 127.0.0.1</code> to <code>host: 89.234.146.59</code> I also try to add <code>89.234.146.59 git.thibaud-dauce.fr</code> in <code>/etc/hosts</code></p> <p>I have a server running Debian 7 32bits with a container LXC for Gitlab, Ruby is version 2.0.0. I have the same error when I try to push a repo (but I can create one online with the web app)</p> <p>Do you have any idea ? I really look everywhere and found no solution...</p>