date: “2016-12-21T15:00:00-02:00” title: “Register as a Windows Service” slug: “windows-service” sidebar_position: 50 toc: false draft: false aliases:
The following changes are made in C:\gitea\custom\conf\app.ini:
RUN_USER = COMPUTERNAME$
Sets Gitea to run as the local system user.
COMPUTERNAME is whatever the response is from echo %COMPUTERNAME%
on the command line. If the response is USER-PC
then RUN_USER = USER-PC$
If you use SQLite3, change the PATH
to include the full path:
[database]
PATH = c:/gitea/data/gitea.db
To register Gitea as a Windows service, open a command prompt (cmd) as an Administrator, then run the following command:
sc.exe create gitea start= auto binPath= "\"C:\gitea\gitea.exe\" web --config \"C:\gitea\custom\conf\app.ini\""
Do not forget to replace C:\gitea
with the correct Gitea directory.
Open “Windows Services”, search for the service named “gitea”, right-click it and click on
“Run”. If everything is OK, Gitea will be reachable on http://localhost:3000
(or the port
that was configured).
To add a startup dependency to the Gitea Windows service (eg Mysql, Mariadb), as an Administrator, then run the following command:
sc.exe config gitea depend= mariadb
This will ensure that when the Windows machine restarts, the automatic starting of Gitea is postponed until the database is ready and thus mitigate failed startups.
To unregister Gitea as a service, open a command prompt (cmd) as an Administrator and run:
sc.exe delete gitea