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# Configuration Cheat Sheet

This is a cheat sheet for the Gitea configuration file. It contains most settings
that can configured as well as their default values.

Any changes to the Gitea configuration file should be made in `custom/conf/app.ini`
or any corresponding location. When installing from a distribution, this will
typically be found at `/etc/gitea/conf/app.ini`.

The defaults provided here are best-effort (not built automatically). They are
accurately recorded in [app.ini.sample](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/custom/conf/app.ini.sample)
(s/master/\<tag|release\>). Any string in the format `%(X)s` is a feature powered
by [ini](https://github.com/go-ini/ini/#recursive-values), for reading values recursively.

Values containing `#` or `;` must be quoted using `` ` `` or `"""`.

**Note:** A full restart is required for Gitea configuration changes to take effect.

## Overall (`DEFAULT`)

- `APP_NAME`: **Gitea: Git with a cup of tea**: Application name, used in the page title.
- `RUN_USER`: **git**: The user Gitea will run as. This should be a dedicated system
   (non-user) account. Setting this incorrectly will cause Gitea to not start.
- `RUN_MODE`: **dev**: For performance and other purposes, change this to `prod` when
   deployed to a production environment. The installation process will set this to `prod`
   automatically. \[prod, dev, test\]

## Repository (`repository`)

- `ROOT`: **~/gitea-repositories/**: Root path for storing all repository data. It must be
   an absolute path.
- `SCRIPT_TYPE`: **bash**: The script type this server supports, usually this is `bash`,
   but some users report that only `sh` is available.
- `ANSI_CHARSET`: **\<empty\>**: The default charset for an unrecognized charset.
- `FORCE_PRIVATE`: **false**: Force every new repository to be private.
- `DEFAULT_PRIVATE`: **last**: Default private when creating a new repository.
   \[last, private, public\]
- `MAX_CREATION_LIMIT`: **-1**: Global maximum creation limit of repositories per user,
   `-1` means no limit.
- `PULL_REQUEST_QUEUE_LENGTH`: **1000**: Length of pull request patch test queue, make it
   as large as possible. Use caution when editing this value.
- `MIRROR_QUEUE_LENGTH`: **1000**: Patch test queue length, increase if pull request patch
   testing starts hanging.
- `PREFERRED_LICENSES`: **Apache License 2.0,MIT License**: Preferred Licenses to place at
   the top of the list. Name must match file name in conf/license or custom/conf/license.
- `DISABLE_HTTP_GIT`: **false**: Disable the ability to interact with repositories over the
   HTTP protocol.
- `USE_COMPAT_SSH_URI`: **false**: Force ssh:// clone url instead of scp-style uri when
   default SSH port is used.
- `ACCESS_CONTROL_ALLOW_ORIGIN`: **\<empty\>**: Value for Access-Control-Allow-Origin header,
   default is not to present. **WARNING**: This maybe harmful to you website if you do not
   give it a right value.

### Repository - Pull Request (`repository.pull-request`)
- `WORK_IN_PROGRESS_PREFIXES`: **WIP:,\[WIP\]**: List of prefixes used in Pull Request
 title to mark them as Work In Progress

## UI (`ui`)

- `EXPLORE_PAGING_NUM`: **20**: Number of repositories that are shown in one explore page.
- `ISSUE_PAGING_NUM`: **10**: Number of issues that are shown in one page (for all pages that list issues).
- `FEED_MAX_COMMIT_NUM`: **5**: Number of maximum commits shown in one activity feed.
- `GRAPH_MAX_COMMIT_NUM`: **100**: Number of maximum commits shown in the commit graph.
- `DEFAULT_THEME`: **gitea**: \[gitea, arc-green\]: Set the default theme for the Gitea install.

### UI - Admin (`ui.admin`)

- `USER_PAGING_NUM`: **50**: Number of users that are shown in one page.
- `REPO_PAGING_NUM`: **50**: Number of repos that are shown in one page.
- `NOTICE_PAGING_NUM`: **25**: Number of notices that are shown in one page.
- `ORG_PAGING_NUM`: **50**: Number of organizations that are shown in one page.

## Markdown (`markdown`)

- `ENABLE_HARD_LINE_BREAK`: **false**: Enable Markdown's hard line break extension.

## Server (`server`)

- `PROTOCOL`: **http**: \[http, https, fcgi, unix\]
- `DOMAIN`: **localhost**: Domain name of this server.
- `ROOT_URL`: **%(PROTOCOL)s://%(DOMAIN)s:%(HTTP\_PORT)s/**:
   Overwrite the automatically generated public URL.
   This is useful if the internal and the external URL don't match (e.g. in Docker).
- `HTTP_ADDR`: **0.0.0.0**: HTTP listen address.
   - If `PROTOCOL` is set to `fcgi`, Gitea will listen for FastCGI requests on TCP socket
     defined by `HTTP_ADDR` and `HTTP_PORT` configuration settings.
   - If `PROTOCOL` is set to `unix`, this should be the name of the Unix socket file to use.
- `HTTP_PORT`: **3000**: HTTP listen port.
   - If `PROTOCOL` is set to `fcgi`, Gitea will listen for FastCGI requests on TCP socket
     defined by `HTTP_ADDR` and `HTTP_PORT` configuration settings.
- `UNIX_SOCKET_PERMISSION`: **666**: Permissions for the Unix socket.
- `LOCAL_ROOT_URL`: **%(PROTOCOL)s://%(HTTP_ADDR)s:%(HTTP_PORT)s/**: Local
   (DMZ) URL for Gitea workers (such as SSH update) accessing web service. In
   most cases you do not need to change the default value. Alter it only if
   your SSH server node is not the same as HTTP node. Do not set this variable
   if `PROTOCOL` is set to `unix`.
- `DISABLE_SSH`: **false**: Disable SSH feature when it's not available.
- `START_SSH_SERVER`: **false**: When enabled, use the built-in SSH server.
- `SSH_DOMAIN`: **%(DOMAIN)s**: Domain name of this server, used for displayed clone URL.
- `SSH_PORT`: **22**: SSH port displayed in clone URL.
- `SSH_LISTEN_PORT`: **%(SSH\_PORT)s**: Port for the built-in SSH server.
- `OFFLINE_MODE`: **false**: Disables use of CDN for static files and Gravatar for profile pictures.
- `DISABLE_ROUTER_LOG`: **false**: Mute printing of the router log.
- `CERT_FILE`: **custom/https/cert.pem**: Cert file path used for HTTPS.
- `KEY_FILE`: **custom/https/key.pem**: Key file path used for HTTPS.
- `STATIC_ROOT_PATH`: **./**: Upper level of template and static files path.
- `ENABLE_GZIP`: **false**: Enables application-level GZIP support.
- `LANDING_PAGE`: **home**: Landing page for unauthenticated users  \[home, explore\].
- `LFS_START_SERVER`: **false**: Enables git-lfs support.
- `LFS_CONTENT_PATH`: **./data/lfs**: Where to store LFS files.
- `LFS_JWT_SECRET`: **\<empty\>**: LFS authentication secret, change this a unique string.
- `LFS_HTTP_AUTH_EXPIRY`: **20m**: LFS authentication validity period in time.Duration, pushes taking longer than this may fail.
- `REDIRECT_OTHER_PORT`: **false**: If true and `PROTOCOL` is https, allows redirecting http requests on `PORT_TO_REDIRECT` to the https port Gitea listens on.
- `PORT_TO_REDIRECT`: **80**: Port for the http redirection service to listen on. Used when `REDIRECT_OTHER_PORT` is true.
- `ENABLE_LETSENCRYPT`: **false**: If enabled you must set `DOMAIN` to valid internet facing domain (ensure DNS is set and port 80 is accessible by letsencrypt validation server).
   By using Lets Encrypt **you must consent** to their [terms of service](https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-2017.pdf).
- `LETSENCRYPT_ACCEPTTOS`: **false**: This is an explicit check that you accept the terms of service for Let's Encrypt.
- `LETSENCRYPT_DIRECTORY`: **https**: Directory that Letsencrypt will use to cache information such as certs and private keys.
- `LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL`: **email@example.com**: Email used by Letsencrypt to notify about problems with issued certificates. (No default)

## Database (`database`)

- `DB_TYPE`: **mysql**: The database type in use \[mysql, postgres, mssql, sqlite3\].
- `HOST`: **127.0.0.1:3306**: Database host address and port.
- `NAME`: **gitea**: Database name.
- `USER`: **root**: Database username.
- `PASSWD`: **\<empty\>**: Database user password. Use \`your password\` for quoting if you use special characters in the password.
- `SSL_MODE`: **disable**: For PostgreSQL and MySQL only.
- `PATH`: **data/gitea.db**: For SQLite3 only, the database file path.
- `LOG_SQL`: **true**: Log the executed SQL.

## Indexer (`indexer`)

- `ISSUE_INDEXER_PATH`: **indexers/issues.bleve**: Index file used for issue search.
- `REPO_INDEXER_ENABLED`: **false**: Enables code search (uses a lot of disk space).
- `REPO_INDEXER_PATH`: **indexers/repos.bleve**: Index file used for code search.
- `UPDATE_BUFFER_LEN`: **20**: Buffer length of index request.
- `MAX_FILE_SIZE`: **1048576**: Maximum size in bytes of files to be indexed.

## Security (`security`)

- `INSTALL_LOCK`: **false**: Disallow access to the install page.
- `SECRET_KEY`: **\<random at every install\>**: Global secret key. This should be changed.
- `LOGIN_REMEMBER_DAYS`: **7**: Cookie lifetime, in days.
- `COOKIE_USERNAME`: **gitea\_awesome**: Name of the cookie used to store the current username.
- `COOKIE_REMEMBER_NAME`: **gitea\_incredible**: Name of cookie used to store authentication
   information.
- `REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_USER`: **X-WEBAUTH-USER**: Header name for reverse proxy
   authentication.
- `REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_EMAIL`: **X-WEBAUTH-EMAIL**: Header name for reverse proxy
   authentication provided email.
- `DISABLE_GIT_HOOKS`: **false**: Set to `true` to prevent all users (including admin) from creating custom
   git hooks.
- `IMPORT_LOCAL_PATHS`: **false**: Set to `false` to prevent all users (including admin) from importing local path on server.

## OpenID (`openid`)

- `ENABLE_OPENID_SIGNIN`: **false**: Allow authentication in via OpenID.
- `ENABLE_OPENID_SIGNUP`: **! DISABLE\_REGISTRATION**: Allow registering via OpenID.
- `WHITELISTED_URIS`: **\<empty\>**: If non-empty, list of POSIX regex patterns matching
   OpenID URI's to permit.
- `BLACKLISTED_URIS`: **\<empty\>**: If non-empty, list of POSIX regex patterns matching
   OpenID URI's to block.

## Service (`service`)

- `ACTIVE_CODE_LIVE_MINUTES`: **180**: Time limit (min) to confirm account/email registration.
- `RESET_PASSWD_CODE_LIVE_MINUTES`: **180**: Time limit (min) to confirm forgot password reset
   process.
- `REGISTER_EMAIL_CONFIRM`: **false**: Enable this to ask for mail confirmation of registration.
   Requires `Mailer` to be enabled.
- `DISABLE_REGISTRATION`: **false**: Disable registration, after which only admin can create
   accounts for users.
- `REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW`: **false**: Enable this to force users to log in to view any page.
- `ENABLE_NOTIFY_MAIL`: **false**: Enable this to send e-mail to watchers of a repository when
   something happens, like creating issues. Requires `Mailer` to be enabled.
- `ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION`: **false**: Enable this to allow reverse proxy authentication.
- `ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_AUTO_REGISTRATION`: **false**: Enable this to allow auto-registration
   for reverse authentication.
- `ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_EMAIL`: **false**: Enable this to allow to auto-registration with a
   provided email rather than a generated email.
- `ENABLE_CAPTCHA`: **false**: Enable this to use captcha validation for registration.
- `CAPTCHA_TYPE`: **image**: \[image, recaptcha\]
- `RECAPTCHA_SECRET`: **""**: Go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin to get a secret for recaptcha.
- `RECAPTCHA_SITEKEY`: **""**: Go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin to get a sitekey for recaptcha.
- `DEFAULT_ENABLE_DEPENDENCIES`: **true** Enable this to have dependencies enabled by default.
- `ENABLE_USER_HEATMAP`: **true** Enable this to display the heatmap on users profiles.
- `EMAIL_DOMAIN_WHITELIST`: **\<empty\>**: If non-empty, list of domain names that can only be used to register
  on this instance.

## Webhook (`webhook`)

- `QUEUE_LENGTH`: **1000**: Hook task queue length. Use caution when editing this value.
- `DELIVER_TIMEOUT`: **5**: Delivery timeout (sec) for shooting webhooks.
- `SKIP_TLS_VERIFY`: **false**: Allow insecure certification.
- `PAGING_NUM`: **10**: Number of webhook history events that are shown in one page.

## Mailer (`mailer`)

- `ENABLED`: **false**: Enable to use a mail service.
- `DISABLE_HELO`: **\<empty\>**: Disable HELO operation.
- `HELO_HOSTNAME`: **\<empty\>**: Custom hostname for HELO operation.
- `HOST`: **\<empty\>**: SMTP mail host address and port (example: smtp.gitea.io:587).
- `FROM`: **\<empty\>**: Mail from address, RFC 5322. This can be just an email address, or
   the "Name" \<email@example.com\> format.
- `USER`: **\<empty\>**: Username of mailing user (usually the sender's e-mail address).
- `PASSWD`: **\<empty\>**: Password of mailing user.  Use \`your password\` for quoting if you use special characters in the password.
- `SKIP_VERIFY`: **\<empty\>**: Do not verify the self-signed certificates.
   - **Note:** Gitea only supports SMTP with STARTTLS.
- `USE_SENDMAIL`: **false** Use the operating system's `sendmail` command instead of SMTP.
   This is common on linux systems.
   - Note that enabling sendmail will ignore all other `mailer` settings except `ENABLED`,
     `FROM` and `SENDMAIL_PATH`.
- `SENDMAIL_PATH`: **sendmail**: The location of sendmail on the operating system (can be
   command or full path).
- ``IS_TLS_ENABLED`` :  **false** : Decide if SMTP connections should use TLS.

## Cache (`cache`)

- `ADAPTER`: **memory**: Cache engine adapter, either `memory`, `redis`, or `memcache`.
- `INTERVAL`: **60**: Garbage Collection interval (sec), for memory cache only.
- `HOST`: **\<empty\>**: Connection string for `redis` and `memcache`.
   - Redis: `network=tcp,addr=127.0.0.1:6379,password=macaron,db=0,pool_size=100,idle_timeout=180`
   - Memache: `127.0.0.1:9090;127.0.0.1:9091`

## Session (`session`)

- `PROVIDER`: **memory**: Session engine provider \[memory, file, redis, mysql\].
- `PROVIDER_CONFIG`: **data/sessions**: For file, the root path; for others, the connection string.
- `COOKIE_SECURE`: **false**: Enable this to force using HTTPS for all session access.
- `COOKIE_NAME`: **i\_like\_gitea**: The name of the cookie used for the session ID.
- `GC_INTERVAL_TIME`: **86400**: GC interval in seconds.

## Picture (`picture`)

- `GRAVATAR_SOURCE`: **gravatar**: Can be `gravatar`, `duoshuo` or anything like
   `http://cn.gravatar.com/avatar/`.
- `DISABLE_GRAVATAR`: **false**: Enable this to use local avatars only.
- `ENABLE_FEDERATED_AVATAR`: **false**: Enable support for federated avatars (see
   [http://www.libravatar.org](http://www.libravatar.org)).
- `AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH`: **data/avatars**: Path to store local and cached files.

## Attachment (`attachment`)

- `ENABLED`: **true**: Enable this to allow uploading attachments.
- `PATH`: **data/attachments**: Path to store attachments.
- `ALLOWED_TYPES`: **see app.ini.sample**: Allowed MIME types, e.g. `image/jpeg|image/png`.
   Use `*/*` for all types.
- `MAX_SIZE`: **4**: Maximum size (MB).
- `MAX_FILES`: **5**: Maximum number of attachments that can be uploaded at once.

## Log (`log`)

- `ROOT_PATH`: **\<empty\>**: Root path for log files.
- `MODE`: **console**: Logging mode. For multiple modes, use a comma to separate values.
- `LEVEL`: **Trace**: General log level. \[Trace, Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Critical\]

## Cron (`cron`)

- `ENABLED`: **true**: Run cron tasks periodically.
- `RUN_AT_START`: **false**: Run cron tasks at application start-up.

### Cron - Cleanup old repository archives (`cron.archive_cleanup`)

- `ENABLED`: **true**: Enable service.
- `RUN_AT_START`: **true**: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
- `SCHEDULE`: **@every 24h**: Cron syntax for scheduling repository archive cleanup, e.g. `@every 1h`.
- `OLDER_THAN`: **24h**: Archives created more than `OLDER_THAN` ago are subject to deletion, e.g. `12h`.

### Cron - Update Mirrors (`cron.update_mirrors`)

- `SCHEDULE`: **@every 10m**: Cron syntax for scheduling update mirrors, e.g. `@every 3h`.

### Cron - Repository Health Check (`cron.repo_health_check`)

- `SCHEDULE`: **every 24h**: Cron syntax for scheduling repository health check.
- `TIMEOUT`: **60s**: Time duration syntax for health check execution timeout.
- `ARGS`: **\<empty\>**: Arguments for command `git fsck`, e.g. `--unreachable --tags`. See more on http://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck

### Cron - Repository Statistics Check (`cron.check_repo_stats`)

- `RUN_AT_START`: **true**: Run repository statistics check at start time.
- `SCHEDULE`: **@every 24h**: Cron syntax for scheduling repository statistics check.

## Git (`git`)

- `MAX_GIT_DIFF_LINES`: **100**: Max number of lines allowed of a single file in diff view.
- `MAX_GIT_DIFF_LINE_CHARACTERS`: **5000**: Max character count per line highlighted in diff view.
- `MAX_GIT_DIFF_FILES`: **100**: Max number of files shown in diff view.
- `GC_ARGS`: **\<empty\>**: Arguments for command `git gc`, e.g. `--aggressive --auto`. See more on http://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc/

## Git - Timeout settings (`git.timeout`)
- `MIGRATE`: **600**: Migrate external repositories timeout seconds.
- `MIRROR`: **300**: Mirror external repositories timeout seconds.
- `CLONE`: **300**: Git clone from internal repositories timeout seconds.
- `PULL`: **300**: Git pull from internal repositories timeout seconds.
- `GC`: **60**: Git repository GC timeout seconds.

## Metrics (`metrics`)

- `ENABLED`: **false**: Enables /metrics endpoint for prometheus. 
- `TOKEN`: **\<empty\>**: You need to specify the token, if you want to include in the authorization the metrics . The same token need to be used in prometheus parameters `bearer_token` or `bearer_token_file`.

## API (`api`)

- `ENABLE_SWAGGER_ENDPOINT`: **true**: Enables /api/swagger, /api/v1/swagger etc. endpoints. True or false; default is true.
- `MAX_RESPONSE_ITEMS`: **50**: Max number of items in a page.

## i18n (`i18n`)

- `LANGS`: **en-US,zh-CN,zh-HK,zh-TW,de-DE,fr-FR,nl-NL,lv-LV,ru-RU,ja-JP,es-ES,pt-BR,pl-PL,bg-BG,it-IT,fi-FI,tr-TR,cs-CZ,sr-SP,sv-SE,ko-KR**: List of locales shown in language selector
- `NAMES`: **English,简体中文,繁體中文（香港）,繁體中文（台灣）,Deutsch,français,Nederlands,latviešu,русский,日本語,español,português do Brasil,polski,български,italiano,suomi,Türkçe,čeština,српски,svenska,한국어**: Visible names corresponding to the locales

### i18n - Datepicker Language (`i18n.datelang`)
Maps locales to the languages used by the datepicker plugin

- `en-US`: **en**
- `zh-CN`: **zh**
- `zh-HK`: **zh-HK**
- `zh-TW`: **zh-TW**
- `de-DE`: **de**
- `fr-FR`: **fr**
- `nl-NL`: **nl**
- `lv-LV`: **lv**
- `ru-RU`: **ru**
- `ja-JP`: **ja**
- `es-ES`: **es**
- `pt-BR`: **pt-BR**
- `pl-PL`: **pl**
- `bg-BG`: **bg**
- `it-IT`: **it**
- `fi-FI`: **fi**
- `tr-TR`: **tr**
- `cs-CZ`: **cs-CZ**
- `sr-SP`: **sr**
- `sv-SE`: **sv**
- `ko-KR`: **ko**

## U2F (`U2F`)
- `APP_ID`: **`ROOT_URL`**: Declares the facet of the application. Requires HTTPS.
- `TRUSTED_FACETS`: List of additional facets which are trusted. This is not support by all browsers.

## Markup (`markup`)

Gitea can support Markup using external tools. The example below will add a markup named `asciidoc`.

```ini
[markup.asciidoc]
ENABLED = false
FILE_EXTENSIONS = .adoc,.asciidoc
RENDER_COMMAND = "asciidoc --out-file=- -"
IS_INPUT_FILE = false
```

- ENABLED: **false** Enable markup support.
- FILE\_EXTENSIONS: **\<empty\>** List of file extensions that should be rendered by an external
   command. Multiple extentions needs a comma as splitter.
- RENDER\_COMMAND: External command to render all matching extensions.
- IS\_INPUT\_FILE: **false** Input is not a standard input but a file param followed `RENDER_COMMAND`.

Two special environment variables are passed to the render command:
- `GITEA_PREFIX_SRC`, which contains the current URL prefix in the `src` path tree. To be used as prefix for links.
- `GITEA_PREFIX_RAW`, which contains the current URL prefix in the `raw` path tree. To be used as prefix for image paths.

## Other (`other`)

- `SHOW_FOOTER_BRANDING`: **false**: Show Gitea branding in the footer.
- `SHOW_FOOTER_VERSION`: **true**: Show Gitea version information in the footer.
- `SHOW_FOOTER_TEMPLATE_LOAD_TIME`: **true**: Show time of template execution in the footer.
