Gitea Installer

Installs Gitea as a systemd service

Linux

You can download and run the installer script:

wget -O install-gitea.bash https://git.coolaj86.com/coolaj86/gitea-installer/raw/master/install.bash
bash install-gitea.bash

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
sudo wget -O /opt/gitea/gitea https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.0.1/gitea-1.0.1-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/raw/master/dist/etc/systemd/system/gitea.service

# Start gitea
sudo systemctl restart gitea

Troubleshooting

Error 226/Namespace

Most likely a directory that is supposed to be writable doesn't exist.

Failed to get repository owner (foobar): no such table: user

Your custom/conf/app.ini has a line like this:

[database]
DB_TYPE = sqlite3
PATH = data/gitea.db

And it should probably look like this instead:

[database]
DB_TYPE = sqlite3
PATH = /opt/gitea/data/gitea.db

Gitea: Invalid key ID

Gitea: Invalid key ID
Invalid key ID[key-2]: public key does not exist [id: 2]
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

You are connecting to gitea with a different ssh key (usually id_rsa.pub) than the one you uploaded. You can usually fix this by uploading your default key or by manually specifying which key to use, for example:

~/.ssh/config:

Host git.example.com
  User gitea
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Expect user 'foobar' but current user is: gitea

remote: 2017/10/25 23:53:10 [...s/setting/setting.go:625 NewContext()] [E] Expect user 'aj' but current user is: gitea
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
To ssh://git.coolaj86.com:22042/coolaj86/hexdump.js.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://gitea@git.coolaj86.com:22042/coolaj86/hexdump.js.git'

If you copied a previous installation of gitea over to a new user, you may get this error.

I haven't yet found where it comes from, but deleting the repository in the UI and re-adding it seems to do the trick from what I can tell. Remember to git fetch --all first before deleting.

203/EXEC

The downloaded gitea file is not executable

Oct 28 00:06:19 git-ldsconnect systemd[1]: gitea.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Oct 28 00:06:19 git-ldsconnect systemd[1]: gitea.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 28 00:06:19 git-ldsconnect systemd[1]: gitea.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Try this:

sudo chmod +x /opt/gitea/gitea