How to start your own epic Git server!

Date: 23-02-2025

Quick guide on how to set up a git server with stagic html website.

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What you will need 📋

A computer with Linux 🐧🖥️
A VPS with Linux instaled 🐧🗄️
Some terminal knowlage 🧠
Ideally have a domain name

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Setting up Git server

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1) Install Git

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# sudo apt install git

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2) Create git user.

# sudo adduser git

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3) Now you need to add your SSh keys.

On server

# su git

$ cd

$ mkdir .ssh && chmod 700 .ssh

$ touch .ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

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On computer

$ cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAACAQCyXwuFdbWHloGPOfFq6p5Dt..... me@shipwreckt.co.uk

Copy and paste your ssh key to .ssh/authorized_keys on your server. -

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If you want to allow other people to use your Git server, add their SSH keys alongside yours.

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4) Nearly done, now all you need to do is make a git repo.

# chown git:git /srv/git

# su git

$ cd /srv/git

$ mkdir yourrepo.git

$ cd yourrepo.git

$ git init --bare

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5) Time to add your server to your local repo

On computer

$ cd yourrepo

$ git init

$ git add .

$ git commit -m 'Initial commit'

$ git remote add origin git@gitserver:/srv/git/project.git

$ git push origin master

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If you already have a Git repository from another server, you can do the following to add your new Git server alongside your old one.

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On computer

$ cd yourrepo

$ git remote add server git@gitserver:/srv/git/project.git

$ git push server master && git push origin master

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You can now do this for all of your repos!

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6) If you want to enable anybody to clone from your website do the following!

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# sudo git daemon --reuseaddr --base-path=/srv/git/ /srv/git/ &

# sudo systemctl enable git-daemon

# sudo systemctl start git-daemon

# su git

touch /srv/git/project.git/git-daemon-export-ok

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Cloning your git repo

On computer

git clone git://your-server-ip-address/repository.git

Now you should be able to be able to clone without a ssh key!

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Setting up Stagit for personal git website

Now that you have a Git server, you probably want a way to show off all of your repositories. I personally use Stagit for this because it is lightweight and stylish. I will assume you know how to make a website using Apache or Nginx.

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1) First you need to install stagit, I have my own custom fork to make it easier to setup.

# cd /var/www

# git clone git://shipwreckt.co.uk/stagit-fork.git

# mkdir git

# chown git:git git

# mv stagit-fork/* git

# cd git

# sudo make clean install

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2) Setup website.

# cd htmldir

# sh example_create.sh

Your static stagit website should be generated for you! Check by going to git.yourdomain.com. - -

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3) Next you want to set up ownership, links, and descriptions for stagiit to display

Descriptions

# This is my git repo > /srv/git/yourrepo.git/description

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URL

# git://yourdomain.com/yourrepo.git > /srv/git/yourrepo.git/url -

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Owner

# owner > /srv/git/yourrepo.git/owner

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Update stagit

# sh /var/www/git/htmldir/example_create.sh

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Now repete for all of your repos till all is correct!

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3) Now you want it so stagit updates whenever there is an update, thankfully for you I have modified the script to work whenever a git commit is made!

- # cp /var/www/git/example_post-receive.sh /srv/git /srv/git/yourgitrepo.git/hooks/post-receive -

Now whenever you push a commit everything should update!

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Overview

I hope this guide has helped you setup a kool git server! If there are any problems please contact me!

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