How to Install Gogs on FreeBSD Latest

Gogs is a simple and lightweight self-hosted Git service written in the Go programming language. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gogs on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation process, make sure that you have the following:

• A FreeBSD Latest server setup with sudo access.
• Root privileges or a user with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Update FreeBSD package manager

The first step is to update the FreeBSD package manager. Run the following command:

sudo pkg update

This command will update the package repository and fetch the latest packages.

Step 2: Install Gogs dependencies

To run Gogs, we need the following dependencies:

• Git
• Go
• SQLite

Run the following command to install these dependencies:

sudo pkg install git go sqlite3

Step 3: Download and Install Gogs

The latest version of Gogs is available on the official website at https://gogs.io/. You can either download the binary or the source code.

For this tutorial, we will download the binary. Run the following command to download the latest binary:

wget https://dl.gogs.io/gogs_latest_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz

Once the download is complete, extract the tarball by running the following command:

tar -xvzf gogs_latest_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz

This will extract the Gogs binary to a directory named gogs.

Step 4: Configure Gogs

Navigate to the gogs directory and run the following command to create a new app.ini file:

cp custom/conf/app.ini.sample custom/conf/app.ini

This will create a new app.ini file in the custom/conf directory.

Next, open the app.ini file using a text editor and make the following changes:

[server]
PORT = 3000  # Change the default port number to a custom one

[database]
DB_TYPE  = sqlite3
PATH     = custom/data/gogs.db

Save the changes and close the file.

Step 5: Start Gogs

To start Gogs, navigate to the gogs directory and run the following command:

./gogs web

This will start Gogs and it will be accessible at http://localhost:3000 (assuming you specified port number as 3000).

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Gogs on FreeBSD Latest. You can now set up your own private Git service using Gogs.

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