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

<blockquote><em>Gitea is a painless self-hosted Git service. It is similar to GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. Gitea is a fork of Gogs. -<a href="https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/" target="_blank">https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/</a></em></blockquote>

<h2>Installing Gitea</h2>

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	<li>Open a browser and navigate to https://dl.gitea.io/gitea</li>
	<li>Open the folder for the latest release</li>
	<li>Download the latest windows .exe release</li>
	<li>Download Git for Windows <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/latest" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Install Git for Windows</li>
	<li>Rename the downloaded gitea .exe file gitea.exe</li>
	<li>Copy/cut gitea.exe</li>
	<li>Navigate to C:\Program Files and create a new folder called gitea</li>
	<li>Paste gitea.exe inside the new gitea folder</li>
	<li>Hold SHIFT and right click in the white space &gt; Open PowerShell window here...</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in the PowerShell window
	<div class="codeBlock PS"># create subdirectories<br />
	$(New-Item -Force -Type Directory &#39;.\data&#39;)<br />
	$(New-Item -Force -Type Directory &#39;.\log&#39;)<br />
	# create basic ini configuration<br />
	&quot;RUN_USER = $ENV:ComputerName`$`r`nAPP_NAME = Git`r`nRUN_MODE = prod`r`n`r`n[ui]`r`nDEFAULT_THEME = arc-green&quot; | Out-File -Encoding utf8 -FilePath &quot;$(New-Item -Force -Type Directory &#39;C:\Program Files\gitea\custom\conf&#39;)\app.ini&quot;<br />
	# run gitea as a service<br />
	New-Service -Name &quot;Gitea&quot; -BinaryPathName &#39;&quot;C:\Program Files\gitea\gitea.exe&quot; web --config &quot;C:\Program Files\gitea\custom\conf\app.ini&quot;&#39; -StartupType &quot;Automatic&quot; -Description &quot;Gitea&quot;<br />
	# start the gitea service<br />
	Start-Service &quot;Gitea&quot;</div>
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<h2>Initial Configuration</h2>

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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000</li>
	<li>Set the database type to SQLite3 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>Documentation: <a href="https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/windows-service/" target="_blank">https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/windows-service/</a></p>
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