# Fresh installation of gitea-1.13.2 - have to create a folder named ~gitea/~ **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980 "2021-02-17T23:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uli-heller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/uli-heller/32/1119_2.png) [@uli-heller](https://forum.gitea.com/u/uli-heller)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/1 "2021-02-17T23:20:37Z")
I’m preparing a fresh gitea instance. Unfortunately, it doesn’t start up. I’m using ubuntu-20.04 and gitea-1.13.2. Within the system journal `journalctl -xe`, I get these errors: ```auto Feb 18 00:06:02 dp-gitea gitea[89199]: 2021/02/18 00:06:02 ...dules/setting/git.go:91:newGit() [I] Git Version: 2.25.1, Wire Protocol Version 2 Enabled Feb 18 00:06:02 dp-gitea gitea[89199]: 2021/02/18 00:06:02 routers/init.go:129:GlobalInit() [F] Git module init failed: Failed to set git user.name(exec(3:git.Init(set user.name)) failed: exit status 255() stdout: stderr: error: could not lock config file ~/.gitconfig: Permission denied Feb 18 00:06:02 dp-gitea gitea[89199]: ): error: could not lock config file ~/.gitconfig: Permission denied Feb 18 00:06:02 dp-gitea gitea[89199]: Feb 18 00:06:02 dp-gitea systemd[1]: gitea.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE -- Subject: Unit process exited -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support -- -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit gitea.service has exited. -- -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1. Feb 18 00:06:02 dp-gitea systemd[1]: gitea.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. ``` I do know the special behavior of “~” and its relation to $HOME. Normally, I would assume that gitea is trying to open a file named “.gitconfig” within the home folder of the user executing the gitea command (named “gitea” in my case). Looking at ~gitea, I see the file exists: ```auto root@dp-gitea:~/systemd# ls -la ~gitea ... -rw-rw-r-- 1 gitea gitea 162 Feb 17 20:42 .gitconfig ``` At some point, I got the idea to create “~gitea/~”. After this, gitea does start up. After starting gitea, a file named “~gitea/~/.gitconfig” got created: ```auto root@dp-gitea:~/systemd# ls -la ~gitea ... drwxr-xr-x 1 gitea gitea 20 Feb 18 00:06 '~' ... root@dp-gitea:~/systemd# ls -la ~gitea/~ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 1 gitea gitea 20 Feb 18 00:06 . drwxr-xr-x 1 gitea gitea 110 Feb 18 00:05 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 gitea gitea 162 Feb 18 00:06 .gitconfig ``` Pretty ugly, but it works. Afterwards, I tried changing the login shell of the user “gitea” from /bin/sh to /bin/bash, no success. The folder “~gitea/~” is still required. Do you have any idea how I can get rid off this ugly folder? Thx, Uli ---
**Author:** ![somera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/somera/32/641_2.png) [@somera](https://forum.gitea.com/u/somera)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/2 "2021-02-20T21:26:29Z")
How do you added the gitea user? > **[Installation from binary - Docs](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-binary/#prepare-environment)** ---
**Author:** ![uli-heller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/uli-heller/32/1119_2.png) [@uli-heller](https://forum.gitea.com/u/uli-heller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/3 "2021-02-21T05:48:45Z")
@somera : Thanks a lot for taking the time looking into this. The only difference from what I see is that I used /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash, although I changed to /bin/bash later on ---
**Author:** ![uli-heller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/uli-heller/32/1119_2.png) [@uli-heller](https://forum.gitea.com/u/uli-heller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/4 "2021-02-21T07:21:54Z")
@somera : I started from scratch. This time, I created the gitea user using bash. Unfortunately, no improvement. I still need the folder “~gitea/~” to run gitea. Here is how I create the user using ansible: ```auto - name: create the gitea user user: name: gitea comment: 'Gitea' shell: /bin/bash password_lock: yes ``` Ansible shows this: ```auto changed: [gitea] => { "ansible_facts": { "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3" }, "changed": true, "comment": "Gitea", "create_home": true, "group": 1001, "home": "/home/gitea", "name": "gitea", "shell": "/bin/bash", "state": "present", "system": false, "uid": 1001 } ``` I guess it is pretty similar to what is mentioned within the docs… ---
**Author:** ![somera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/somera/32/641_2.png) [@somera](https://forum.gitea.com/u/somera)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/5 "2021-02-21T11:09:28Z")
ok. You do this with ansible. The error say, that the user git has no write permission to ~ (-\> but what exactly is ~?) The gitea process should run as gitea user. And have you add this ```auto mkdir -p /var/lib/gitea/{custom,data,log} chown -R git:git /var/lib/gitea/ chmod -R 750 /var/lib/gitea/ mkdir /etc/gitea chown root:git /etc/gitea chmod 770 /etc/gitea ``` too? can you post the whole ansible script? ---
**Author:** ![somera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/somera/32/641_2.png) [@somera](https://forum.gitea.com/u/somera)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/6 "2021-02-21T11:19:00Z")
I found this: [GitHub - thomas-maurice/ansible-role-gitea: Ansible role to deploy a Gitea instance](https://github.com/thomas-maurice/ansible-role-gitea) ---
**Author:** ![uli-heller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/uli-heller/32/1119_2.png) [@uli-heller](https://forum.gitea.com/u/uli-heller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/fresh-installation-of-gitea-1-13-2-have-to-create-a-folder-named-gitea/2980/7 "2021-02-21T15:32:28Z")
@somera : I found my mistake. Sorry for wasting your time but thx a lot for your efforts. Your findings related to ansible look _very_ good. My mistake within gitea.service: ```diff root@gitea:/home/gitea# diff -u /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service* --- /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service 2021-02-21 16:29:04.952692183 +0100 +++ /etc/systemd/system/gitea.service~ 2021-02-21 16:26:47.000000000 +0100 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ #RuntimeDirectory=gitea ExecStart=/srv/gitea/gitea --custom-path /srv/gitea/custom --work-path /srv/gitea/work Restart=always +Environment=USER=gitea HOME=/home/gitea GITEA_WORK_DIR=/srv/gitea/work GITEA_CUSTOM=/srv/gitea/custom -Environment=USER=gitea HOME=~ GITEA_WORK_DIR=/srv/gitea/work GITEA_CUSTOM=/srv/gitea/custom # If you install Git to directory prefix other than default PATH (which happens # for example if you install other versions of Git side-to-side with # distribution version), uncomment below line and add that prefix to PATH ```