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81 lines
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---
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date: "2016-12-21T15:00:00-02:00"
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title: "Register as a Windows service"
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slug: "windows-service"
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sidebar_position: 50
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toc: false
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draft: false
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aliases:
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- /en-us/windows-service
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menu:
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sidebar:
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parent: "installation"
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name: "Windows Service"
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sidebar_position: 50
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identifier: "windows-service"
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---
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# Register as a Windows service
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## Prerequisites
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The following changes are made in C:\gitea\custom\conf\app.ini:
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```
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RUN_USER = COMPUTERNAME$
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```
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Sets Gitea to run as the local system user.
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COMPUTERNAME is whatever the response is from `echo %COMPUTERNAME%` on the command line. If the response is `USER-PC` then `RUN_USER = USER-PC$`
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### Use absolute paths
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If you use SQLite3, change the `PATH` to include the full path:
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```
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[database]
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PATH = c:/gitea/data/gitea.db
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```
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## Register Gitea
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To register Gitea as a Windows service, open a command prompt (cmd) as an Administrator,
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then run the following command:
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```
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sc.exe create gitea start= auto binPath= "\"C:\gitea\gitea.exe\" web --config \"C:\gitea\custom\conf\app.ini\""
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```
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Do not forget to replace `C:\gitea` with the correct Gitea directory.
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Open "Windows Services", search for the service named "gitea", right-click it and click on
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"Run". If everything is OK, Gitea will be reachable on `http://localhost:3000` (or the port
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that was configured).
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### Service startup type
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It was observed that on loaded systems during boot Gitea service may fail to start with timeout records in Windows Event Log.
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In that case change startup type to `Automatic-Delayed`. This can be done during service creation, or by running config command
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```
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sc.exe config gitea start= delayed-auto
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```
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### Adding startup dependencies
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To add a startup dependency to the Gitea Windows service (eg Mysql, Mariadb), as an Administrator, then run the following command:
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```
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sc.exe config gitea depend= mariadb
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```
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This will ensure that when the Windows machine restarts, the automatic starting of Gitea is postponed until the database is ready and thus mitigate failed startups.
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## Unregister Gitea
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To unregister Gitea as a Windows service, open a command prompt (cmd) as an Administrator and run:
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```
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sc.exe delete gitea
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```
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