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Customizing Gitea
Customizing Gitea is typically done using the custom folder. This is the central
place to override configuration settings, templates, etc.
If Gitea is deployed from binary, all default paths will be relative to the gitea
binary. If installed from a distribution, these paths will likely be modified to
the Linux Filesystem Standard. Gitea will create required folders, including custom/.
Application settings are configured in custom/conf/app.ini. Distributions may
provide a symlink for custom using /etc/gitea/.
If the custom folder can't be found next to the binary, check the GITEA_CUSTOM
environment variable; this can be used to override the default path to something else.
GITEA_CUSTOM might, for example, be set by an init script.
Note: Gitea must perform a full restart to see configuration changes.
Customizing /robots.txt
To make Gitea serve a custom /robots.txt (default: empty 404), create a file called
robots.txt in the custom folder with expected contents.
Serving custom public files
To make Gitea serve custom public files (like pages and images), use the folder
custom/public/ as the webroot. Symbolic links will be followed.
For example, a file image.png stored in custom/public/, can be accessed with
the url http://gitea.domain.tld/image.png.
Changing the default avatar
Place the png image at the following path: custom/public/img/avatar\_default.png
Customizing Gitea pages
The custom/templates folder allows changing every single page of Gitea. Templates
to override can be found in the templates directory of Gitea source. Override by
making a copy of the file under custom/templates using a full path structure
matching source.
Any statement contained inside {{ and }} are Gitea's template syntax and
shouldn't be touched without fully understanding these components.
Adding links and tabs
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.
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:
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.
To match the current style, the link should have the class name "item", and you can use {{AppSubUrl}} to get the base URL:
<a class="item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/impressum.html">Impressum</a>
You can add new tabs in the same way, putting them in extra_tabs.tmpl.
The exact HTML needed to match the style of other tabs is in the file
templates/repo/header.tmpl
(source in GitHub)
Other additions to the page
Apart from extra_links.tmpl and extra_tabs.tmpl, there are other useful templates you can put in your custom/templates/custom/ directory:
header.tmpl, just before the end of the<head>tag where you can add custom CSS files for instance.body_outer_pre.tmpl, right after the start of<body>.body_inner_pre.tmpl, before the top navigation bar, but already inside the main container<div class="full height">.body_inner_post.tmpl, before the end of the main container.body_outer_post.tmpl, before the bottom<footer>element.footer.tmpl, right before the end of the<body>tag, a good place for additional Javascript.
Adding Analytics to Gitea
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.
Customizing gitignores, labels, licenses, locales, and readmes.
Place custom files in corresponding sub-folder under custom/options.
Customizing the look of Gitea
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 section of app.ini to another one of the available options.