Gitea in a FreeBSD jail

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I run a server at home, primarily for file shares but backups as well. One thing that I felt might be easier is running git on the server to better integrate into my workflow as well as working better than git on a shared drive.

To install gitea on my FreeBSD server I took the following steps:

  • Create a new jail
  • Install gitea and enable it:
root@git:~ #pkg install gitea bash
root@git:~ #sysrc gitea_enable=YES

Bash was needed as it wasn’t a requirement of gitea but was needed later during the install, this may be fixed when you do this next time.

  • Configure gitea

You can either do this by editing the app.ini directly or deleting the app.ini file and temporarily opening up permissions for gitea to create/edit the file itself. If you chose to have the app do by itself, start the app up as follows:

root@git:~ #service gitea start

Gitea should now be accessible at http://localhost:3000. If the box is remote you may need to combine both these approaches to configure.