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---
Here I document my steps to get Gitea up and running on a Debian server.
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Gitea is a self-hosted service to host and accept contributions to your git repositories on the web.
## Prerequisites
- git
- curl/wget to obtain the binary
- MySQL/PostgreSQL/MSSQL/SQLite3/TiDB
## Getting Gitea
Go to Gitea's official website for [installation instructions](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-binary/).
It usually boils down to
1. Obtaining and verifying the binary
2. Creating a user
3. Creating directory structure
4. Creating a service file
5. Setting up a databse
6. Configuring Gitea
## Create user
Create a user to run Gitea. Here we name it 'gitea' for the sake of our convenience.
```bash
adduer \
--system \
--shell /bin/bash \
--gecos 'Gitea' \
--group \
--disabled-password \
--home /home/gitea \
gitea
```
## Create directory structure
```bash
mkdir -p /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data.log}
chown -R gitea:gitea /var/lib/gitea
chmod -R 750 /var/lib/gitea
mkdir /etc/gitea
chown root:gitea /etc/gitea
chmod 770 /etc/gitea
```
## Copy Gitea binary to global location
```
cp gitea /usr/local/bin/gitea
```
## Create a service file
Copy the sample [gitea.service](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/contrib/systemd/gitea.service) to `/etc/systemd/system/gitea.service`, then edit the file with a text editor.
Replace the lines starting with `---` to `+++`.
```
--- #Wants=postgresql.service
--- #After=postgresql.service
+++ Wants=postgresql.service
+++ After=postgresql.service
--- User=git
--- Group=git
+++ User=gitea
+++ Group=gitea
```
## Set up a database
As user `postgres`, run the following
```
createuser gitea
createdb gitea
psql
alter user gites with encrypted password 'super-secure-password';
grant all privileges on database gitea to gitea;
\q
```
## Set up a web server
Put the following configuration in `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile`
```
gitea.adityakumar.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}
```
Now reload caddy
```bash
systemctl reload caddy
```
## Configure Gitea
Enable and start Gitea
```bash
systemctl enable --now gitea.service
```
Head to the website, or go to `localhost:3000` if you have physical access to the server. Alternatively you can use port forwarding to configure Gitea using your local machine.
On the page,
- enter database username, password and database name.
- change Site Title to whatever you prefer.
- enter `gitea` in Run As Username field.
- change Gitea Base URL to the site's URL
Rest of the options should be left as is unless you have other requirements.
