Migrate repository Gitea to another Gitea server

Hello community,

OLD SERVER debian 11 gitea 1.19.4 → gitea 1.21.7 mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.5.19-MariaDB nginx
NEW SERVER debian 12 gitea 1.21.7 mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.11.6-MariaDB

My two systems communicate PING and SSH in both directions, and they are both self-hosted.

As part of a proof of concept I set up a Gitea server.
Due to availability issues, this POC had to be functional.

Today I was able to configure a new Gitea server.
I therefore want to transfer part of the deposits to the new server while maintaining the pull-request issues.

I see that in “new migration” the choice of gitea is available.
I made several attempts without success, I tried with or without access token, mirror, LFS…

For the token I created it using the web interface of the old server
profile → configuration → application
I put a name and check all the permissions

Here is my installation procedure:
So I use the migration tools
selection Gitea.
I put the URL of the repository that I want imported
I fill in with an access token that I created
I check the element labels tickets requests for addition, publication, milestone
I select the new owner
fill in the name of the repository
and press migrate

and I get the following message

You cannot import from disallowed hosts, please ask the admin to check ALLOWED_DOMAINS/ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS/BLOCKED_DOMAINS settings.

The configuration of the app.ini file is similar for both servers, I tried several configurations

; [migrations]
; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; ;
; ; Max attempts per http/https request on migrations.
; MAX_ATTEMPTS = 3
; ;
; ; Backoff time per http/https request retry (seconds)
; RETRY_BACKOFF = 3
; ;
; ; Allowed domains for migrating, default is blank. Blank means everything will be allowed.
; ; Multiple domains could be separated by commas.
; ; Wildcard is supported: "github.com, *.github.com"
; ALLOWED_DOMAINS =
ALLOWED_DOMAINS = *.MY.DOMAIN*
; ;
; ; Blocklist for migrating, default is blank. Multiple domains could be separated by commas.
; ; When ALLOWED_DOMAINS is not blank, this option has a higher priority to deny domains.
; ; Wildcard is supported.
BLOCKED_DOMAINS =
; ;
; ; Allow private addresses defined by RFC 1918, RFC 1122, RFC 4632 and RFC 4291 (false by default)
; ; If a domain is allowed by ALLOWED_DOMAINS, this option will be ignored.
; ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS = false
ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS = true

New server log

mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...eb/routing/logger.go:102:func1() [I] router: completed GET /user/events for MY_IP:PORT, 200 OK in 223873.0ms @ events/events.go:18(events.Events)
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...s/process/manager.go:231:remove() [T] Done 65f19cb2-2: GET: /user/events
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...s/process/manager.go:188:Add() [T] Start 65f19d92: POST: /repo/migrate (request)
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...eb/routing/logger.go:47:func1() [T] router: started   POST /repo/migrate for IP:63909
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...ices/auth/session.go:50:SessionUser() [T] Session Authorization: Found user[3]
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...ices/auth/session.go:66:SessionUser() [T] Session Authorization: Logged in user <User 3:MYUSER>
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 .../context_response.go:68:HTML() [D] Template: repo/migrate/gitea
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...eb/routing/logger.go:102:func1() [I] router: completed POST /repo/migrate for MY_IP:PORT, 200 OK in 18.2ms @ repo/migrate.go:151(repo.MigratePost)
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...s/process/manager.go:231:remove() [T] Done 65f19d92: POST: /repo/migrate
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...s/process/manager.go:188:Add() [T] Start 65f19d92-2: GET: /user/events (request)
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...eb/routing/logger.go:47:func1() [T] router: started   GET /user/events for IP:63909
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...ices/auth/session.go:50:SessionUser() [T] Session Authorization: Found user[3]
mars 13 13:35:30 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:30 ...ices/auth/session.go:66:SessionUser() [T] Session Authorization: Logged in user <User 3:MYUSER>
mars 13 13:35:34 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:34 ...eb/routing/logger.go:68:func1() [I] router: polling   GET /user/events for MY_IP:PORT, elapsed 3931.3ms @ events/events.go:18(events.Events)
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...s/process/manager.go:188:Add() [T] Start 65f19d9f: Cron: Stop zombie tasks (normal)
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...s/process/manager.go:188:Add() [T] Start 65f19d9f-2: Cron: Update Mirrors (normal)
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...ces/mirror/mirror.go:41:Update() [T] Doing: Update
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...s/process/manager.go:188:Add() [T] Start 65f19d9f-3: Cron: Start schedule tasks (normal)
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...s/process/manager.go:231:remove() [T] Done 65f19d9f: Cron: Stop zombie tasks
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...ces/mirror/mirror.go:118:Update() [T] Finished: Update: 0 pull mirrors and 0 push mirrors queued
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...s/process/manager.go:231:remove() [T] Done 65f19d9f-2: Cron: Update Mirrors
mars 13 13:35:43 NEW_SERVER gitea[62215]: 2024/03/13 13:35:43 ...s/process/manager.go:231:remove() [T] Done 65f19d9f-3: Cron: Start schedule tasks

While searching on the net I came across solutions consisting of dumping the database and copying the directory /var/lib/gitea

if possible I would prefer to be able to migrate the repositories

What if you clear ALLOWED_DOMAINS?

Hello
I tried with ALLOWED_DOMAINS comment and uncomment, with my domain, with *, and empty

BLOCKED_DOMAINS comment and uncommented

ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS = false or true and comment and uncomment

I never succeeded.

I ended up making a backup of gitea and the database
and delete repositories to make room for backups