githaven/docs/content/administration/environment-variables.en-us.md
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This PR cleans up the docs in a way to make them simpler to ingest by
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1. It includes all of the sed invocations our ingestion did, removing
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---
date: "2017-04-08T11:34:00+02:00"
title: "Environment variables"
slug: "environment-variables"
sidebar_position: 10
toc: false
draft: false
aliases:
- /en-us/environment-variables
menu:
sidebar:
parent: "administration"
name: "Environment variables"
sidebar_position: 10
identifier: "environment-variables"
---
# Environment variables
This is an inventory of Gitea environment variables. They change Gitea behaviour.
Initialize them before Gitea command to be effective, for example:
```sh
GITEA_CUSTOM=/home/gitea/custom ./gitea web
```
## From Go language
As Gitea is written in Go, it uses some Go variables, such as:
- `GOOS`
- `GOARCH`
- [`GOPATH`](https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-GOPATH_environment_variable)
For documentation about each of the variables available, refer to the
[official Go documentation](https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Environment_variables).
## Gitea files
- `GITEA_WORK_DIR`: Absolute path of working directory.
- `GITEA_CUSTOM`: Gitea uses `WorkPath`/custom folder by default. Use this variable to change _custom_ directory.
## Operating system specifics
- `USER`: System user that Gitea will run as. Used for some repository access strings.
- `USERNAME`: if no `USER` found, Gitea will use `USERNAME`
- `HOME`: User home directory path. The `USERPROFILE` environment variable is used in Windows.
### Only on Windows
- `USERPROFILE`: User home directory path. If empty, uses `HOMEDRIVE` + `HOMEPATH`
- `HOMEDRIVE`: Main drive path used to access the home directory (C:)
- `HOMEPATH`: Home relative path in the given home drive path
## Miscellaneous
- `SKIP_MINWINSVC`: If set to 1, do not run as a service on Windows.