How do I change the default home page of my gitlab installation

Question

By default my gitlab homepage starts www.mydomain.com/users/sign_in. I would like to change this to show 'www.mydomain.com/public' instead. How do I configure this?

Answer 1

Setting custom startpage for non-logged in users:

1. From "Admin Area" goto the gear on the left and choose "Settings"
2. Find parameter "Home page URL" and set it to www.mygitlab.com/explore. Optional set "After sign out path" to same url
3. Click save

Tested with version is 8.14.4 CE

Answer 2

This answer was written while running Gitlab 6. Any instructions may be outdated.

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The feature request has been declined so you have to do it on your own and change the source code.

Full tutorial here: Kovah.me DevBlog

Short HowTo:
Just open
gitlab/app/views/layouts/devise.html.haml
and change what you want.

For example you could replace %h1 GitLab with your own logo. Use the image tag for it: %img{:src => "/source/to/image.png"}

But attention! You have to use spaces to indent all elements! And make a backup before running any upgrades.