Guide – How To Start – Gitea – Git Server on Linux 7.9

Try our popular solution for hosting Git repositories on Linux 7.9 – Gitea

This is a quick deployment and ready-to-run image.
Simple and rapid installation. Easy to maintain.

The guide on how to use Gitea – Git Server on Linux 7.9

1. To start the server, run the VM through Azure Portal.
2. To work, you must open port 3000 (TCP) in the network properties in the Azure firewall.

3. You must create a DNS name. In the Azure admin, you need to go to the VM properties on the left the “Overview” section in it, on the right you need to configure the DNS name, the name will become, for example, “gitea123.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com” and click “Save”.

4. Open a browser on your PC and go to the DNS address http://domain_name:3000, where domain_name is the address of your DNS name or DNS configured on Azure in the previous step (for example http://gitea123.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com:3000)
5. On the page, select the following settings:

Database Type: MySQL

Username: gitea

Password: gitea_rFzQpTkLdSvmH296!$

Database Name: gitea.db

6. Click on the “Install Gitea” button at the bottom of the page to complete the configuration settings, then the “Sign in” page will open:

7. Then click on the “Register” button in the upper right.

The page address in the browser changes to: http://gitea123.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com:3000/user/sign_up 

Enter your preferred “Username” and your “Email Address”.

Create and verify “Password”.

Password Requirements:

• at least one special character (punctuation, brackets, quotation marks, etc.);
• at least one lowercase character;
• at least one uppercase character;
• at least one digit.

The first user will receive administrator rights on the portal.

More detailed instructions can be found at:

https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/