Gitea

Install on Ubuntu

Database Preparation

create database gitea character set 'utf8mb4' collate 'utf8mb4_general_ci'; create user 'gitea'@'localhost' identified by '[PWD]'; grant all privileges on gitea.* to 'gitea'@'localhost'; flush privileges;

Installation from binary

# create a user to run Gitea sudo adduser --system --group --disabled-password gitea # create required directory structure sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,log} sudo chown -R gitea:gitea /var/lib/gitea/ sudo chmod -R 750 /var/lib/gitea/ sudo mkdir /etc/gitea sudo chown root:gitea /etc/gitea sudo chmod 770 /etc/gitea wget https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/1.20.5/gitea-1.20.5-linux-arm64 -O gitea sudo mv gitea /usr/local/bin sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/gitea sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/gitea

Run as service

/etc/systemd/system/gitea.service

[Unit] Description=Gitea (Git with a cup of tea) After=syslog.target After=network.target Wants=mariadb.service After=mariadb.service [Service] RestartSec=2s Type=notify User=gitea Group=gitea WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/gitea/ # If using Unix socket: tells systemd to create the /run/gitea folder, which will contain the gitea.sock file # (manually creating /run/gitea doesn't work, because it would not persist across reboots) #RuntimeDirectory=gitea ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gitea web --config /etc/gitea/app.ini Restart=always Environment=USER=gitea HOME=/home/gitea GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea WatchdogSec=30s [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target