Gitea Systemd Service Unit

gitea.service

[Unit]
Description=Gitea service bootstrap for /opt/gitea/gitea

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/gitea/gitea web
ExecStop=/opt/gitea/gitea manager shutdown
Restart=on-failure
User=user
Group=1000
KillSignal=SIGINT

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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systemd service unit for gitea

Requirements

1. Brain.
2. Gitea installed at /opt/gitea, otherwise modify the gitea.service file contents before the next steps.
3. Modify the User and Group inside gitea.service if necessary.

Installation

1. Save gitea.service as /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service
2. Run sudo systemctl enable gitea
3. Run sudo systemctl start gitea

Conclusion

If you did everything right (download, configure, this and that) then the unit should be working fine. It will also automatically run whenever the system boots up, which means you don't have to deal with the headache of starting it up manually yourself.

In case the service is not running when you check via sudo systemctl status gitea then make sure your Gitea configuration hasn't been mangled by something.