Forgejo

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge

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Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

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services:
  forgejo:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/forgejo:latest"
    container_name: forgejo
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
      - SSH_PORT=2222  # Published port for sshd (used in clone URLs)
      - SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22  # Port on which sshd listens inside the container
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/forgejo:/config"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
      - "2222:22"
    restart: unless-stopped

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podman run -d --name forgejo \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -p 2222:22 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e SSH_PORT=2222 \
  -e SSH_LISTEN_PORT=22 \
  -v /path/to/containers/forgejo:/config \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/forgejo:latest

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- name: Deploy forgejo
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: forgejo
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/forgejo:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
      SSH_PORT: "2222"
      SSH_LISTEN_PORT: "22"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
      - "2222:22"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/forgejo:/config"

Access at: http://localhost:3000

Interactive Configuration

Parameters

Environment Variables

Volumes

Ports

First run

If no configuration file exists when the container starts, it will generate an initial default config file at /config/custom/conf/app.ini.
You can make configuration changes in this file later (e.g. SMTP configuration) and they will be preserved across container restarts.

SSH Setup

If you modify the port mapping from the default 2222:22 you need to update the 2 environment variables described below accordingly.

SSH_LISTEN_PORT env var

This variable indicates on which port Forgejo's ssh server listens inside the container.
If your port mapping for ssh is 2222:22, this variable should be set to 22.
This variable is used on every container start to modify the sshd_config config file.

SSH_PORT env var

This variable tells Forgejo on which port the ssh server is reachable from the outside and is used when constructing the ssh URLs shown in Forgejo's web UI.
If your port mapping for ssh is 2222:22, this variable should be set to 2222.
This variable is used only during the first container startup to create the initial configuration file for Forgejo. If you want to modify the SSH_PORT later, you need to change the configuration in the [server] section of /config/custom/conf/app.ini.

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