I switched to gitea in 2020 in order to host repositories for non tech people, but I no longer have that need.
Gitea is simple enough to host but it has way too many features and way too frequent (security) updates! I therefore chose to simplify things again and went back to gitolite which I used for almost a decade before I switched to gitea. I chose to keep a web frontend because I do not want to link to github in my blog articles and settled on cgit to fill that role.
## Installation and configuration
The installation is documented in the following docs articles on this website:
If you are following these installation notes as a guide, there is one important thing to know: I wanted to keep gitea links mostly working (at least redirecting to the correct repository), so I created all my publicly available repositories under an `adyxax` folder. This shows mostly in the cgit and nginx configurations.
The main challenge I encountered was how to make `go get` or `go install` work with cgit. When go tries to fetch a dependency from a remote git repository, it expects a particular header to be present in the http response, something like:
