Can't change users project limit in GitLab
I have installed GitLab-CE from the projects package repo on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system.
The package version is this:
8.9.5-ce.0
The architecture is AMD64.
I have configured everything fine. I have HTTPS and so on. I created my admin account and so on. Now I would like to create projects and here the problems start. When I try to create a project I get this error:
Limit reached Personal project creation is not allowed.
Please contact your administrator with questions
So I Googled what to do. First I changed the default project limit for new users. Actually it's 1000. This doesn't solved the problem.
So I checked the project limit of my account. It's 0. Very strange I thought..... so I tried to change it also to 1000.
GitLab says it saved the settings successfully but...... it's still 0 and can't be changed.
Also I can't set the ability to create groups. The above error still appears and I don't know how to solve this.
Does someone has an idea how to do so? Only thing I would think is to change it in the DB directly but I think this would be very dirty.
Answer
Your project limit is indeed 0, as shown in app/models/project.rb#check_limit().
This is normally set with Default projects limit in /admin/application_settings and Save.
The OP PHPDeveloper adds:
I made the mistake to set the user as External User. This resets the set users project limit always back to 0.
If not, check your config/gitlab.yml file for the default_projects_limit line.
Issue 14544 does mention:
When the account is already made you have to change the project limit value in the account settings as admin user.
The "default project limit" is for when a new account is created.