I need a specific git setup
reddit / selfhosted

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PunishedRaion · 2023-12-31 03:02

Hey guys, let me explain my needs in hope you guys can give me a
suggestion.

I run https://IRIXNet.org. recently a host mistakenly terminated a
server I ran gitea on and I lost most of my server data, but not the
repositories. So I'm setting up a new server once again but I'm trying
to figure out what we can use for this. I am running NetBSD which has
some caveats compared to GNU/Linux but other than certain applications
and docker files not being available it really doesn't make a
difference.

What am I needing?

I need a git application that is practical for multiple users to
upload and host their projects. It doesn't necessarily need to do
things like issue tracking or whatever. It just needs to be somewhat
more capable than say, cgit where the configuration and features
offered in the base package are a little too basic.

It needs to be able to run over both HTTP and HTTPS. I usually
accomplish this by setting the server name to //domain.com and it
works effectively, but on gitea it causes a nasty error message that I
can't get to go away about the root URL mismatching. We need non-SSL
access, full stop. That's not negotiable. There's no way for us to get
SSL on some of our older systems and while browsing is not necessarily
possible they can still pull the files down without issue.

I cannot use Java applications, unfortunately. OpenJDK requires X11 to
build and I cannot/will not install that in the server.

If you know of any application that's not going to cause us headache
with false error messages let me know. We are running nginx as our
webserver.

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vivekkhera · 2023-12-31 03:50

What’s wrong with running gitea in your netbsd box?  I run it on
FreeBSD and it works just great.

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Few-Foundation-9553 · 2023-12-31 12:42

Can‘t you just use Gitea with a reverse proxy in front, which does
HTTP and HTTPS to your Gitea instance? So Gitea should not see, if the
client uses HTTPS?

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PunishedRaion · 2023-12-31 13:30

I'd rather not. This causes all sorts of session related issues.