As a result, an Internet connection is no longer required
to use relative URLs.
To enable relative url, we execute `gitlab:assets:compile`.
This have been removed in official documentation in v10.0.0
(first committed to gitlab-foss, then ported to gitlab(-ee))
- EE: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/1139/
- CE: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/merge_requests/8831
An internet connection was required when enabling relative urls
to install the node modules required for compilation.
I reviewed the rake task `gitlab:assets:compile` and investigated
whether it was necessary to compile all assets
just because the relative url changed,
and found that this rake task is internally a separate rake task
`gitlab:assets :fix_urls` which rewrite the reference URL in the css.
I removed rake task `gitlab:assets:compile` at runtime
and confirmed that the gitlab application worked normally as before.
I have confirmed that at least the following functions work properly.
- Administrator password reset at first login
- Create empty project
- Edit/add and commit files using web IDE
- Create merge request/issue
- Attach files to comments
- Create empty group
- Move existing project to group
In addition, we no longer need to do following things
- persist node_modules, recompiled assets and caches
- apply patches to gitlab itself to avoid removing (symlink to) node_modules/
This change also reduces startup time in certain cases
when the relative URL feature is enabled
(when assets are compiled; for example,
when performing a version upgrade or changing the relative URL)
(on my environment, `gitlab:assets:fix_urls` took about 20 seconds)
