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## Install Forgejo and Git, create git user
> **NOTE:** this guide assumes that you'll host on the server with the domain git.example.com.
> **NOTE:** this guide uses git.example.com and x.y.z for illustrative purpose.
> Replace with your domain and the used Forgejo version as appropriate.
First, download the Forgejo binary for your CPU architecture and maybe verify the GPG signature,
First, download the Forgejo binary for your CPU architecture and verify the GPG signature,
as described on [the Forgejo download page](/download/).
Next, copy the downloaded Forgejo binary to `/usr/local/bin/` (renaming it to "forgejo")
@ -17,11 +18,11 @@ and make it executable:
> **NOTE:** when a line starts with #, it means the command 'foo --bar' must be run as root (or with sudo).
```
# cp forgejo-7.0.0-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/forgejo
# cp forgejo-x.y.z-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/forgejo
# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/forgejo
```
Make sure `git` and `git-lfs` are installed:
Make sure `git` and `git-lfs` are installed on your system. On Debian GNU/Linux you can use:
```
# apt install git git-lfs
@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ On **Debian, Ubuntu** and their derivatives that's done with:
```
# adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --gecos 'Git Version Control' \
--group --disabled-password --home /home/git git
--group --disabled-password --home /home/git git
```
On **Linux distributions not based on Debian/Ubuntu** (this should at least work with Red Hat derivatives
@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ like Fedora, CentOS etc.), run this instead:
## Create directories Forgejo will use
Now create the directories Forgejo will use and set access rights appropriately:
Now create the directories Forgejo will use and set access permissions appropriately:
```
# mkdir /var/lib/forgejo
@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ This is the directory Forgejo will store its data in, including your Git reposit
# chown root:git /etc/forgejo && chmod 770 /etc/forgejo
```
This is the directory Forgejo's config, called `app.ini`, is stored in. Initially it needs to
be writable by Forgejo, but after the installation you can make it read-only for Forgejo because
This is the directory Forgejo's config, called `app.ini`, is stored in. **Initially it needs to
be writable by Forgejo**, but after the installation you can make it read-only for Forgejo because
then it shouldn't modify it anymore.
## Optional: Set up database