I have installed gitlab on my ubuntu server and as far as I can tell its up and running. I'm trying to configure it so that I can access it via my static IP from anywhere. What should I put in the external_url in gitlab.rb ? Should be the local static ip of the server followed by the port number? Basically I want to be able to type http://staticIp:portNum and acces the web interface.
Also if I reconfigure will I loose the root password that was generated for me? I know that the file will be deleted so I copied the pass over just to be safe.