Forgejo Basic Setup

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:00:38 +0100

Setting up local Git server and Forgejo front-end

Guide should be transferable to many systems, but here using Ubuntu 24.04 on both hosts.

Create system account “git”

This will also implicitly create the group “git”:

sudo useradd \
  --system \
  --shell /bin/bash \
  --home /srv/forgejo \
  --comment 'Forgejo Git Service' \
  git

Create ZFS datasets, tune them, set mountpoints

Arguably overkill but I will create separate datasets for repos, data, log. Operationally this is useful to rollback forgejo via ZFS snapshot, but leave repos untouched. For light personal use a single dataset is also fine and perhaps preferable - make your call.

Git on Niall Donaghy

Forgejo Basic Setup

Setting up local Git server and Forgejo front-end

Create system account “git”

Create ZFS datasets, tune them, set mountpoints