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            <h1>Host Your Own GitHub Alternative with Gitea</h1>
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          <h2>What is Gitea</h2>

<blockquote><em>Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. -<a href="https://gitea.io/" target="_blank">https://gitea.io/</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installing Gitea</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install preprequisites<br />
	sudo apt install git mariadb-server -y<br />
	# create gitea user<br />
	sudo adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --gecos &#39;Git Version Control&#39; --group --disabled-password --home /home/gitea gitea<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the Gitea database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE gitea CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;<br />
	CREATE USER &#39;gitea_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;G1te@!&#39;;<br />
	GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gitea.* TO &#39;gitea_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands:
	<div class="codeBlock"># download the Gitea binary<br />
	wget -O ./gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v1.14.2/gitea-1.14.2-linux-amd64<br />
	# make gitea executable<br />
	sudo chmod +x gitea<br />
	# move gitea to /usr/local/bin<br />
	sudo mv ./gitea /usr/local/bin/<br />
	# verify gitea can be found<br />
	gitea --version<br />
	# create required directory structures<br />
	sudo mkdir -p /etc/gitea /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,indexers,public,log}<br />
	sudo chown gitea:gitea /var/lib/gitea/{data,indexers,log}<br />
	sudo chmod 750 /var/lib/gitea/{data,indexers,log}<br />
	sudo chown root:gitea /etc/gitea<br />
	sudo chmod 770 /etc/gitea<br />
	# create gitea service<br />
	sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service</div>
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	<li>Paste the following into gitea.service
	<p>[Unit]<br />
	Description=Gitea<br />
	After=syslog.target<br />
	After=network.target<br />
	After=mysql.service</p>

	<p>[Service]<br />
	LimitMEMLOCK=infinity<br />
	LimitNOFILE=65535<br />
	RestartSec=2s<br />
	Type=simple<br />
	User=gitea<br />
	Group=gitea<br />
	WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/gitea/<br />
	ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gitea web -c /etc/gitea/app.ini<br />
	Restart=always<br />
	Environment=USER=git HOME=/home/gitea GITEA_WORK_DIR=/var/lib/gitea</p>

	<p>[Install]<br />
	WantedBy=multi-user.target</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to gitea.service</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands:
	<div class="codeBlock"># reload services<br />
	sudo systemctl daemon-reload<br />
	# enable gitea to run on boot and start now<br />
	sudo systemctl enable --now gitea</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000</li>
	<li>Complete the database settings on the Initial Configuration screen &gt; Click the Install Gitea button</li>
	<li>Click the Register Now link</li>
	<li>Enter a username, email and password &gt; Click the Register Account button</li>
	<li>Welcome to Gitea</li>
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<p>Source: <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/" target="_blank">https://about.gitlab.com/</a></p>          </div>
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