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An automated method that doesn't require much typing can be found [ here ]

There are quite a few ways to do this and this is one way.

Gitea requires a database MariaDB as well as a webserver Nginx to be installed. Once this is done you can proceed.

Download the gitea executable you can check for the newest version here Gitea

cd ~
wget https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.21.3/gitea-1.21.3-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/gitea
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitea

Create a database for gitea to use.

mysql
connect mysql
create database gitea;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gitea.* TO 'gitea'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'GiteaSecretPassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Next create the Nginx configuration. I've provided 2 examples please adjust as necessary:

Nginx configuration running on port 80 [ view ]
Nginx configuration running on port 443 [ view ]

Note: The configuration files above requires the following directory /etc/nginx/nginxsnippets to be present. You can download it from [ here ] or you can just clone the directory like this.

git clone https://git.x-files.dk/ubuntu-server-files/nginxsnippets.git /etc/nginx/nginxsnippets

Restart Nginx and Phpfpm

systemctl restart nginx && systemctl restart php8.1-fpm

Create Gitea user

adduser --system --group --disabled-password --shell /bin/bash --home /home/git --gecos 'Git Version Control' git

Create gitea folders

mkdir -p /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}
mkdir /etc/gitea
chown root:git /etc/gitea
chmod 770 /etc/gitea

Create the Gitea systemd script you can copy it from [ here ] it should be named gitea.service and be placed here: /etc/systemd/system/

Start Gitea

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable gitea
systemctl start gitea

Launch your browser and go to http(s)://giteasomething.xyz and modify the settings shown [ here ]

log back into the new git server and run the following commands as root

cp -Rp /etc/gitea/app.ini /etc/gitea/app.ini.orig
sed -i '/gitea-repositories/a MAX_FILES = 500' /etc/gitea/app.ini
sed -i '/gitea-repositories/a FILE_MAX_SIZE = 200' /etc/gitea/app.ini
sed -i '/\[log\]/a LEVEL = warn' /etc/gitea/app.ini
sed -i '/\[log\]/a MODE = file' /etc/gitea/app.ini

Add the following at the bottom of /etc/gitea/app.ini as shown [ here ]

All done the only thing left is to restart Gitea

systemctl restart gitea.