title: Drone.IO – GitLab address with hosts file
body: <p>I have a GitLab instance on a fixed internal IP, and configured the hosts file on the clients if a hostname which points to that IP.</p>
  
  <p>But we are unable to make Drone work when using the hostname. We have Gitlab on port 80 and Drone on port 8000. It does work when it’s configured to the fixed ip:</p>
  
  <p>Our compose file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>version: '2'
  services:
      gitlab:
        image: 'gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest'
        restart: always
        environment:
          GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG: |
            external_url 'http://our.host.name.com'
            gitlab_rails['gitlab_shell_ssh_port'] = 22
            # Add any other gitlab.rb configuration here, each on its own line
        ports:
          - '80:80'
          - '443:443'
          - '22:22'
        volumes:
          - '/srv/gitlab/config:/etc/gitlab'
          - '/srv/gitlab/logs:/var/log/gitlab'
          - '/srv/gitlab/data:/var/opt/gitlab'
  
      drone-server:
        image: drone/drone:0.7.3
        links:
          - "gitlab:our.host.name.com"
        ports:
          - "8000:8000"
        volumes:
          - /home/drone:/var/lib/drone/
          - /home/drone/cache:/var/lib/drone/cache/
          - /home/foresight/keys:/var/lib/drone/keys
        environment:
          DRONE_OPEN: "true"
          DRONE_SERVER_ADDR: ":8000"
          DRONE_HOST: "http://our.host.name.com:8000"
          DRONE_ADMIN: &lt;redacted&gt;
          DRONE_GITLAB: "true"
          DRONE_GITLAB_URL: "http://our.host.name.com"
          DRONE_GITLAB_CLIENT: &lt;redacted&gt;
          DRONE_GITLAB_SECRET: &lt;redacted&gt;
          DRONE_SECRET: &lt;redacted&gt;
      drone-agent:
        image: drone/drone:0.7.3
        command: agent
        depends_on:
          - drone-server
        volumes:
          - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
        environment:
          DRONE_SERVER: ws://drone-server:8000/ws/broker
          DRONE_DEBUG: "true"
          DRONE_SECRET: &lt;redacted&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i configure it this way, drone doesn’t seem to accept triggers from GitLab.</p>
  
  <p>Naturally, i reset the drone cache, updated the callback url to use the domain name also, and re-activated the repositories.</p>
  
  <p>i couldn’t find any log file for drone that provides insight on why the trigger fails.</p>