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Specific variables

This is an inventory of Gitea environment variables. They change Gitea behaviour.

Initialize them before Gitea command to be effective, for example:

GITEA_CUSTOM=/home/gitea/custom ./gitea web

From Go language

As Gitea is written in Go, it uses some Go variables, such as:

• GOOS
• GOARCH
• GOPATH

For documentation about each of the variables available, refer to the official Go documentation.

Gitea files

• GITEA_WORK_DIR: Absolute path of working directory.
• GITEA_CUSTOM: Gitea uses GITEA_WORK_DIR/custom folder by default. Use this variable to change custom directory.
• GOGS_WORK_DIR: Deprecated, use GITEA_WORK_DIR
• GOGS_CUSTOM: Deprecated, use GITEA_CUSTOM

Operating system specifics

• USER: System user that Gitea will run as. Used for some repository access strings.
• USERNAME: if no USER found, Gitea will use USERNAME
• HOME: User home directory path. The USERPROFILE environment variable is used in Windows.

Only on Windows

• USERPROFILE: User home directory path. If empty, uses HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH
• HOMEDRIVE: Main drive path used to access the home directory (C:)
• HOMEPATH: Home relative path in the given home drive path

Macaron (framework used by Gitea)

• HOST: Host Macaron will listen on
• PORT: Port Macaron will listen on
• MACARON_ENV: global variable to provide special functionality for development environments vs. production environments. If MACARON_ENV is set to “” or “development”, then templates will be recompiled on every request. For more performance, set the MACARON_ENV environment variable to “production”.

Miscellaneous

• SKIP_MINWINSVC: If set to 1, do not run as a service on Windows.