git.berlin

Gitea installation notes git.berlin

• Migration from GitLab
• Update Gitea
• Customization
• Handy commands
• Gitea Documentation

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Migration from GitLab

• bin/migrate-gitlab-gitea.sh

Update Gitea

# run update script, passing version number as option
./bin/update-gitea.sh 1.6.1

Update script sets options by default, can be changed at top of script:

Option	Default	Description
giteaBinary	/home/git/gitea/gitea	Gitea binary path
arch	linux-amd64	Server architecture
giteaStore	/home/git/gitea-update	Directory where update files will be stored
giteaUser	git	linux user Gitea is running under
giteaGroup	git	linux group Gitea is running under

• bin/update-gitea.sh

Customization

The custom/ folder maps to /home/git/gitea/custom/ on the server. Its contents can be deployed via rsync with:

npm i
npm run deploy

Gitea Docs: Customizing Gitea

Handy commands

sudo su git
cd /home/git

vi gitea/custom/conf/app.ini

# Backup
# https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/backup-and-restore/
sudo su git
./gitea dump -c gitea/custom/conf/app.ini

# Restart Gitea service
sudo service gitea restart

# nginx
sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gitea
sudo service nginx restart

Gitea Documentation

• docs.gitea.io