Gitea Installer

Installs Gitea (formerly Gogs) as a systemd service

Easy Install (Linux)

You can download and run the installer script using this command:

curl -fsSL https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/gitea-installer.sh/raw/branch/master/install.bash | bash

Specific Versions

You can pick a specific version to install. For example, if you were nostalgic for 1.2.0, you could run:

curl -fsSL https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/gitea-installer.sh/raw/branch/master/install.bash | bash -s version 1.2.0

After Installing

Once you have gitea installed and running you must choose which database to use, certain gitea paths, an admin user, etc.

Go to: http://localhost:3000/

You should see these fields: (The following is for basic usage with this script, for more advance usage see: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/customizing-gitea/)

Database Type: Use SQLite3 for the database.

Path: Leave this alone.

Application Name: Give your Gitea server a fancy name.

Repository Root Path: Leave this alone.

LFS Root Path: Leave this alone.

Run User: Leave this alone.

Domain: Replace this with your domain name for the server.

SSH Port: Leave this alone unless you want a custom port for SSH.

HTTP Port: Change this if you want Gitea to serve on a different port. You don't usually need to, Gitea is usually used behind a web server.

Application URL: Enter the full URL for your Gitea instance, like https://example.com/

Log Path: Leave this alone.

Click on "Admin Account Settings" to setup your user account and click "Install Gitea" when you are done.

Manual Install

Or manually install by reading these instructions and following along:

### Create a 'gitea' user and group with the home /opt/gitea, no password (because it's a system user) and no GECOS
sudo adduser gitea --home /opt/gitea --disabled-password --gecos ''

### Make some other potentially useful directories for that user/group
sudo mkdir -p /opt/gitea/ /var/log/gitea
sudo chown -R gitea:gitea /opt/gitea/ /var/log/gitea

### Download and install gitea. Replace "amd64" with "i386" for 32 bit x86 or "arm-7" for ARMv7 and "arm-6" for ARMv6.
sudo wget -O /opt/gitea/gitea https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.4.1/gitea-1.4.1-linux-amd64
sudo chmod +x /opt/gitea/gitea

### Download and install the gitea.service for systemd
sudo wget -O /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/gitea-installer.sh/raw/master/dist/etc/systemd/system/gitea.service

### Start gitea
sudo systemctl restart gitea

Then see the post-install instruction above.

Customize Gitea

/opt/gitea/custom/conf/app.ini

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/master/custom/conf/app.ini.sample

Once a reverse proxy is set up you can change the HTTP_ADDR from the default (world accessible) to localhost-only.

HTTP_ADDR        = localhost

Customize Gitea Theme

All overrides to the existing theme can be placed in the custom/public and custom/templates folders.

• Change Logo
• Change Landing Page
• Google Analytics

/opt/gitea/custom/public
/opt/gitea/custom/templates

/opt/gitea/custom/public/img/favicon.png     # 16x16 logo in tab
/opt/gitea/custom/public/img/gitea-sm.png    # 120x120 logo on all pages
/opt/gitea/custom/public/img/gitea-sm.png    # 880x880 logo on landing page

/opt/gitea/custom/templates/home.tmpl        # The landing page
/opt/gitea/custom/templates/base/head.tmpl   # Google Analytics, Login with Github

• Login with Github

For many items, such as the logo, you can simply right-click "inspect" to discover the location. For example, the small logo is /img/gitea-sm.png or /opt/gitea/custom/public/img/gitea-sm.png.

You can find more information about customization and templates in the docs and on github:

• https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/customizing-gitea/
• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/master/templates/

Troubleshooting systemd

See Troubleshooting systemd

Removing Gitea

Run this command to uninstall Gitea: (THIS WILL REMOVE ALL DATA if you are using SQLite!)

curl -fsSL https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/gitea-installer.sh/raw/branch/master/remove.bash | bash