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| date: "2017-04-15T14:56:00+02:00"
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| title: "Customizing Gitea"
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| slug: "customizing-gitea"
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| weight: 9
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| toc: false
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| draft: false
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| menu:
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|   sidebar:
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|     parent: "advanced"
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|     name: "Customizing Gitea"
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|     weight: 9
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|     identifier: "customizing-gitea"
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| ---
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| 
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| # Customizing Gitea
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| 
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| Customizing Gitea is typically done using the `custom` folder. This is the central
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| place to override configuration settings, templates, etc.
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| 
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| If Gitea is deployed from binary, all default paths will be relative to the gitea
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| binary. If installed from a distribution, these paths will likely be modified to
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| the Linux Filesystem Standard. Gitea will create required folders, including `custom/`.
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| Application settings are configured in `custom/conf/app.ini`. Distributions may
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| provide a symlink for `custom` using `/etc/gitea/`.
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| 
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| - [Quick Cheat Sheet](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/config-cheat-sheet/)
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| - [Complete List](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/custom/conf/app.ini.sample)
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| 
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| If the `custom` folder can't be found next to the binary, check the `GITEA_CUSTOM`
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| environment variable; this can be used to override the default path to something else.
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| `GITEA_CUSTOM` might, for example, be set by an init script.
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| 
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| - [List of Environment Variables](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/specific-variables/)
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| 
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| **Note:** Gitea must perform a full restart to see configuration changes.
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| 
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| ## Customizing /robots.txt
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| 
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| To make Gitea serve a custom `/robots.txt` (default: empty 404), create a file called
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| `robots.txt` in the `custom` folder with [expected contents](http://www.robotstxt.org/).
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| 
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| ## Serving custom public files
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| 
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| To make Gitea serve custom public files (like pages and images), use the folder
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| `custom/public/` as the webroot. Symbolic links will be followed.
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| 
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| For example, a file `image.png` stored in `custom/public/`, can be accessed with
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| the url `http://gitea.domain.tld/image.png`.
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| 
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| ## Changing the default avatar
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| 
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| Place the png image at the following path: `custom/public/img/avatar\_default.png`
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| 
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| ## Customizing Gitea pages
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| 
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| The `custom/templates` folder allows changing every single page of Gitea. Templates
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| to override can be found in the `templates` directory of Gitea source. Override by
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| making a copy of the file under `custom/templates` using a full path structure
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| matching source.
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| 
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| Any statement contained inside `{{` and `}}` are Gitea's template syntax and
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| shouldn't be touched without fully understanding these components.
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| 
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| ### Adding links and tabs
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| 
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| If all you want is to add extra links to the top navigation bar, or extra tabs to the repository view, you can put them in `extra_links.tmpl` and `extra_tabs.tmpl` inside your `custom/templates/custom/` directory.
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| 
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| For instance, let's say you are in Germany and must add the famously legally-required "Impressum"/about page, listing who is responsible for the site's content:
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| just place it under your "custom/public/" directory (for instance `custom/public/impressum.html`) and put a link to it in `custom/templates/custom/extra_links.tmpl`.
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| 
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| To match the current style, the link should have the class name "item", and you can use `{{AppSubUrl}}` to get the base URL:
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| `<a class="item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/impressum.html">Impressum</a>`
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| 
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| You can add new tabs in the same way, putting them in `extra_tabs.tmpl`.
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| The exact HTML needed to match the style of other tabs is in the file
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| `templates/repo/header.tmpl`
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| ([source in GitHub](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/templates/repo/header.tmpl))
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| 
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| ### Other additions to the page
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| 
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| Apart from `extra_links.tmpl` and `extra_tabs.tmpl`, there are other useful templates you can put in your `custom/templates/custom/` directory:
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| 
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| - `header.tmpl`, just before the end of the `<head>` tag where you can add custom CSS files for instance.
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| - `body_outer_pre.tmpl`, right after the start of `<body>`.
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| - `body_inner_pre.tmpl`, before the top navigation bar, but already inside the main container `<div class="full height">`.
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| - `body_inner_post.tmpl`, before the end of the main container.
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| - `body_outer_post.tmpl`, before the bottom `<footer>` element.
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| - `footer.tmpl`, right before the end of the `<body>` tag, a good place for additional Javascript.
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| 
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| ## Adding Analytics to Gitea
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| 
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| Google Analytics, Matomo (previously Piwik), and other analytics services can be added to Gitea. To add the tracking code, refer to the `Other additions to the page` section of this document, and add the JavaScript to the `custom/templates/custom/header.tmpl` file.
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| 
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| ## Customizing gitignores, labels, licenses, locales, and readmes.
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| 
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| Place custom files in corresponding sub-folder under `custom/options`.
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| 
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| ## Customizing the look of Gitea
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| 
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| As of version 1.6.0 Gitea has built-in themes. The two built-in themes are, the default theme `gitea`, and a dark theme `arc-green`. To change the look of your Gitea install change the value of `DEFAULT_THEME` in the [ui](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/config-cheat-sheet/#ui-ui) section of `app.ini` to another one of the available options.
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