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.

What you will need 📋

Setting up Git server

  • 1) Install Git

    • # sudo apt install git


  • 2) Create git user.

    • # sudo adduser git

  • 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


    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.

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

  • 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

  • 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

    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.

    On computer

    $ cd yourrepo

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

    $ git push server master && git push origin master

    You can now do this for all of your repos!

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

    • # 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

    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!

    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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

    URL

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

    Owner

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

    Update stagit

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

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

  • 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!

    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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