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

The following is ONLY needed on an smeserver build

mkdir /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitea.service.d
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 8 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, just need to create db, user and password and use same details when in setup for the gitea web interface.

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 git-lfs policycoreutils-python-utils wget nano
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
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

Using Maria DB >= 10.4

From here:

https://docs.gitea.com/installation/database-prep

For local database:

SET old_passwords=0;
CREATE USER 'gitea'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'gitea';

Create database with UTF-8 charset and collation. Make sure to use utf8mb4 charset instead of utf8 as the former supports all Unicode characters (including emojis) beyond Basic Multilingual Plane. Also, collation chosen depending on your expected content. When in doubt, use either unicode_ci or general_ci.

CREATE DATABASE giteadb CHARACTER SET 'utf8mb4' COLLATE 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci';

Grant all privileges on the database to database user created above.

For local database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON giteadb.* TO 'gitea';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Quit from database console using 'exit'

Test your connection

mysql -u gitea -p giteadb

Now you can use the Database Type "Maria DB" in your setup.

LDAP settings

https://docs.gitea.com/features/authentication

Under SME v10 we can authenticate users against the local LDAP server.

On my server I had already set up a LDAP authentication user called 'auth' rather than using the admin account. I also set up a group called 'it_dept' for restricting user access.

Site Administration, Authentication Sources

Add Authentication Source

Settings

Authentication Name : Choose a name Security Protocol: StartTLS Host: Your LDAP host Port: 389 Bind DN: uid=auth,ou=Users,dc=yourdomain,dc=com Bind Password: "password of 'auth' user" User Search Base: ou=Users,dc=yourdomain,dc=com User Filter: (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(|(uid=%[1]s)(mail=%[1]s)))

First Name Attribute: givenName Surname Attribute: sn Email Attribute: mail

Enable LDAP Groups

Group Search Base DN: ou=Groups,dc=yourdomain,dc=com Group Attribute Containing List Of Users :memberUID Verify group membership in LDAP: (cn=it_dept)

Fetch Attributes in Bind DN Context: enabled This Authentication source is Activated: enabled

Enable user synchronization: enabled (after you have checked your settings!)

This option enables a periodic task that synchronizes the Gitea users with the LDAP server. The default period is every 24 hours but that can be changed in the app.ini file. See the cron.sync_external_users section in the sample app.ini for detailed comments about that section. The User Search Base and User Filter settings described above will limit which users can use Gitea and which users will be synchronized. When initially run the task will create all LDAP users that match the given settings so take care if working with large Enterprise LDAP directories.

Notes

Once this is enabled a user logging in will have a gitea account created and synced.

You can also change the accounts between Local and LDAP

Identity & Access, User Accounts

Authentication Source: LDAP Authentication Sign-In Name: Match the LDAP name

Update and test login.