Environment variables

This is an inventory of Gitea environment variables. They change Gitea behaviour.

Initialize them before Gitea command to be effective, for example:

GITEA_CUSTOM=/home/gitea/custom ./gitea web

From Go language

As Gitea is written in Go, it uses some variables that influence the behaviour of Go’s runtime, such as:

• GOMEMLIMIT
• GOGC
• GOMAXPROCS
• GODEBUG

For documentation about each of the variables available, refer to the official Go documentation on runtime environment variables.

Gitea files

• GITEA_WORK_DIR: Absolute path of working directory.
• GITEA_CUSTOM: Gitea uses WorkPath/custom folder by default. Use this variable to change custom directory.

Operating system specifics

• USER: System user that Gitea will run as. Used for some repository access strings.
• USERNAME: if no USER found, Gitea will use USERNAME
• HOME: User home directory path. The USERPROFILE environment variable is used in Windows.

Only on Windows

• USERPROFILE: User home directory path. If empty, uses HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH
• HOMEDRIVE: Main drive path used to access the home directory (C:)
• HOMEPATH: Home relative path in the given home drive path

Miscellaneous

• SKIP_MINWINSVC: If set to 1, do not run as a service on Windows.