Self-Hosted Gitea Server

Guide to setting up a self-hosted Gitea server in an LXC containter on Proxmox

Why?

• Having a private git repo with a frontend for projects seperate from Github
• Run the equivalent of Github Actions but locally

Goals at the end of the day

• Have a local private Gitea Server running, accessible on the local network

Resources

• Gitea
• Proxmox Helper Scripts - Gitea
• Proxmox Helper Scripts - PostgreSQL
• PostgreSQL Post-Install
• Permission Denied fix when initial Gitea setup

Requirements

The Gitea LXC container doesn't have a database, so we need to set one up. We will use a PostgreSQL LXC container.

How-To

Installing PostgreSQL

1. Run the Proxmox Helper Script; Follow the prompts from the script and install Adminer

2. Follow the post-install guide up until creating the new database.

3. Create a new user named gitea

   • CREATE USER gitea WITH PASSWORD 'your-password';

4. Create a new database named gitea

   • CREATE DATABASE gitea;

5. Grant the user gitea access to the database gitea

   • GRANT ALL ON DATABASE gitea TO gitea;

6. Change the owner of the gitea database

   • ALTER DATABASE gitea OWNER TO gitea;

Installing Gitea

1. Run the Proxmox Helper Script

End

We should now have a running gitea server with a postgreSQL database