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First check your gitea version
gitea --version
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Open up Github
Go to the branch related to your installed version.
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Startup Gitea and you will discover.
Custom path: /path-to-customization/gitea/custom -
This path /path-to-customization/gitea/custom is where you will make all the changes.
Create templates/base directory inside the custom path.
Go to the same directory inside gitea’s github page e.g. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/release/v1.9/templates/base
- Customizing the header navigation.
Copy from github repo → release/v1.9/templates/base/head_navbar.tmpl
Put it into gitea-custom-path/templates/base/head_navbar.tmpl
Customize as necessary and then just restart you gitea app.
- Serving Custom Assets
Create public directory inside gitea-custom-path
If you want to access for example an image inside gitea template. You can create public/img/logo.jpg
Then just refer to the logo inside the template (.tmpl) file with path: /img/logo.jpg.
I hope people find this helpful as I have kept it concise enough.