Gitea install

Installation

For SME10For Rocky 8

Gitea is an open-source forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, wikis, and code review.

This is how I installed the latest version of Gitea (https://gitea.io) on my smeserver build box (this is running smeserver v10.1 in serveronly)

This will work for a Centos 7 build as well.

	Note:
	There is a smeserver contrib for Git and gitweb, but I did not use these as they only provide older versions of git, whereas we wanted the latest versions for use with gitea

First we need to install git (latest stable version at the time)

export GITVER=2.39.1-1
wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/git/x86_64/git-${GITVER}.WANdisco.x86_64.rpm
wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/git/x86_64/perl-Git-${GITVER}.WANdisco.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall git-${GITVER}.WANdisco.x86_64.rpm perl-Git-${GITVER}.WANdisco.noarch.rpm

Next we'll install gitea (latest stable version at the time)

export GITEAVER=1.18.5
wget https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v${GITEAVER}/gitea-${GITEAVER}-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/gitea
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitea
useradd git
mkdir -p /etc/gitea /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,indexers,public,log}
chown git:git /var/lib/gitea/{data,indexers,log}
chmod 750 /var/lib/gitea/{data,indexers,log}
chown root:git /etc/gitea
chmod 770 /etc/gitea

Now we want to set it up as a service and ensure that it will be restarted on reboot.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/go-gitea/gitea/main/contrib/systemd/gitea.service -O /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitea.service
mkdir /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitea.service.d

The following is ONLY needed on an smeserver build

cat <<EOT > /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitea.service.d/50koozali.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=sme-server.target
EOT
config set gitea service status enabled

Now we setup gitea on your server

systemctl enable --now gitea

Access the setup page via a browser http://<your-smeserver-IP>:3000

I found it easiest to just use SQLite3 (built in to smeserver v10)

Make sure that you set your Server Domain and Gitea Base URL to the correct values for your server.

You will likely have to refresh the browser and then it will ask you to login.

You can setup your users via the web interface.

If you are having problems accessing gitea, check the app.ini file to ensure that the ROOT_URL is correct in

nano /etc/gitea/app.ini

if you change it, you'll need to restart gitea

systemctl restart gitea

Gitea is an open-source forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, wikis, and code review.

Prerequisites

• Rocky Linux 9 installed
• Full SSH root access.
• Gitea supports the following databases.
• SQLite
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MariaDB
• TiDB
• MSSQL

In the guide below, we’ll use SQLite as the database for Gitea. You can pick any of the supported databases in your installation as needed. Setting up Gitea to use MariaDB will be detailed as well.

This is what I did on a bare Rocky 8 minimal install

First we need to install git and any required pkgs

dnf install git policycoreutils-python-utils
useradd git

Next we'll install gitea (latest stable version at the time)

export GITEAVER=1.20.5
wget https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v${GITEAVER}/gitea-${GITEAVER}-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/gitea
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitea
mkdir -p /etc/gitea /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,indexers,public,log}
chown git:git /var/lib/gitea/{data,indexers,log}
chmod 750 /var/lib/gitea/{data,indexers,log}
chown root:git /etc/gitea
chmod 770 /etc/gitea

Now we want to set it up as a service and set security settings (selinux and firewall).

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/go-gitea/gitea/main/contrib/systemd/gitea.service -O /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitea.service
mkdir /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitea.service.d
semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_rw_t "/var/lib/gitea/data/gitea-repositories(/.*)?"
restorecon -r -v /var/lib/gitea/data/gitea-repositories
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=3000/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload

Now we setup gitea on your server

	Note:
	Gitea will wait for you to run the web setup, but as we are starting this as a service, the service will timeout if you leave it. The service will auto-restart, so you can try to connect and setup again, or you can manually restart the gitea service.

systemctl enable --now gitea

Access the setup page via a browser http://<your-smeserver-IP>:3000

I found it easiest to just use SQLite3 (already installed)

Make sure that you set your Server Domain and Gitea Base URL to the correct values for your server.

You will likely have to refresh the browser and then it will ask you to login.

You can setup your users via the web interface.

If you are having problems accessing gitea, check the app.ini file to ensure that the ROOT_URL is correct in

nano /etc/gitea/app.ini

if you change it, you'll need to restart gitea

systemctl restart gitea