When connection to git lab ce via HTML I get the following error:
500, We're sorry, but something went wrong.
Ive had a look at the rather large production.log file and there are lots of :
Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-08-04 08:45:01 +0100
Processing by DashboardController#show as HTML
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 39ms
URI::InvalidURIError (the scheme http does not accept registry part: version_control_server (or bad hostname?)):
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:168:in `add_gon_variables'
I have never had to investigate these errors before so I am a little lost at present.
version_control_server is the name of the server that this gitlabce runs on.
Can anyone please give me any pointers as to where to look.
thanks in advance.

Try to visit the true LAN IP of your gitlab server instead of 127.0.0.1 the localhost.