nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/forgejo.md

Forgejo

Forgejo is a soft-fork of gitea, with strong community focus, as well as on self-hosting and federation. Codeberg is deployed from it.

See upstream docs.

The method of choice for running forgejo is using services.forgejo.

::: {.warning} Running forgejo using services.gitea.package = pkgs.forgejo is no longer recommended. If you experience issues with your instance using services.gitea, DO NOT report them to the services.gitea module maintainers. DO report them to the services.forgejo module maintainers instead. :::

Migration from Gitea

::: {.note} Migrating is, while not strictly necessary at this point, highly recommended. Both modules and projects are likely to diverge further with each release. Which might lead to an even more involved migration. :::

Full-Migration

This will migrate the state directory (data), rename and chown the database and delete the gitea user.

::: {.note} This will also change the git remote ssh-url user from gitea@ to forgejo@, when using the host's openssh server (default) instead of the integrated one. :::

Instructions for PostgreSQL (default). Adapt accordingly for other databases:

systemctl stop gitea
mv /var/lib/gitea /var/lib/forgejo
runuser -u postgres -- psql -c '
  ALTER USER gitea RENAME TO forgejo;
  ALTER DATABASE gitea RENAME TO forgejo;
'
nixos-rebuild switch
systemctl stop forgejo
chown -R forgejo:forgejo /var/lib/forgejo
systemctl restart forgejo

Alternatively, keeping the gitea user

Alternatively, instead of renaming the database, copying the state folder and changing the user, the forgejo module can be set up to re-use the old storage locations and database, instead of having to copy or rename them. Make sure to disable services.gitea, when doing this.

{
  services.gitea.enable = false;

  services.forgejo = {
    enable = true;
    user = "gitea";
    group = "gitea";
    stateDir = "/var/lib/gitea";
    database.name = "gitea";
    database.user = "gitea";
  };

  users.users.gitea = {
    home = "/var/lib/gitea";
    useDefaultShell = true;
    group = "gitea";
    isSystemUser = true;
  };

  users.groups.gitea = {};
}