Gitea action not working whenever gitea instance running under subpath #12327

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GiteaMirror · 2025-11-02T10:05:47-06:00

GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 10:05:47 -06:00

Originally created by @Shakthijuego on GitHub (Jan 11, 2024).

Description

My repo located at https://giteainstance.com/git/user/repo. Checkout action for gitea action failed with error
fatal: repository 'https:///giteainstance.com/user/repo/' not found

Gitea Version

1.21.0

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

No

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How are you running Gitea?

Behind nginx under subpath

Database

None

Originally created by @Shakthijuego on GitHub (Jan 11, 2024). ### Description My repo located at https://giteainstance.com/git/user/repo. Checkout action for gitea action failed with error `fatal: repository 'https:///giteainstance.com/user/repo/' not found` ### Gitea Version 1.21.0 ### Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site? No ### Log Gist _No response_ ### Screenshots _No response_ ### Git Version _No response_ ### Operating System _No response_ ### How are you running Gitea? Behind nginx under subpath ### Database None

GiteaMirror added the type/bug label 2025-11-02 10:05:47 -06:00

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GiteaMirror commented

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@lng2020 commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024):

reference https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1242
actions/checkout just does not support the subpath yet.
maybe there is a fork of actions/checkout supports subpath?

@lng2020 commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024): reference https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1242 `actions/checkout` just does not support the subpath yet. maybe there is a fork of `actions/checkout` supports subpath?

GiteaMirror commented

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@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024):

That seems the case. However just forking action/checkout doesn't seems to fix. Service prefix even being ignored in gitea action runner. Remote gitea action not being handled properly.

- name: Check out repository code with subpath
   uses: https://giteainstance.com/git/repo/checkout.git@v3

@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024): That seems the case. However just forking action/checkout doesn't seems to fix. Service prefix even being ignored in gitea action runner. Remote gitea action not being handled properly. ``` - name: Check out repository code with subpath uses: https://giteainstance.com/git/repo/checkout.git@v3 ```

GiteaMirror commented

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@lng2020 commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024):

I mean you may find someone fork actions/checkout repo and modify it to support the suburl feature.
for example https://gitea.com/ScMi1/checkout (I haven't tried this so I'm not sure it works)
However, I think this issue can be closed. Any further thoughts?

@lng2020 commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024): I mean you may find someone fork `actions/checkout` repo and modify it to support the suburl feature. for example https://gitea.com/ScMi1/checkout (I haven't tried this so I'm not sure it works) However, I think this issue can be closed. Any further thoughts?

GiteaMirror commented

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@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024):

Yes thank you. Checkout action got working with 'uses: ischanx/checkout@06c611454073903c9d44641d7e085b21115d3dcf'
I will raise a separate issue for https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner to support 'uses' command with subpath.

@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024): Yes thank you. Checkout action got working with 'uses: ischanx/checkout@06c611454073903c9d44641d7e085b21115d3dcf' I will raise a separate issue for https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner to support 'uses' command with subpath.

GiteaMirror commented

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@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024):

For any ones reference: This code is responsible for ignoring subpath in action. (Search for newRemoteAction) https://gitea.com/gitea/act/src/branch/main/pkg/runner/step_action_remote.go

@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 12, 2024): For any ones reference: This code is responsible for ignoring subpath in action. (Search for newRemoteAction) https://gitea.com/gitea/act/src/branch/main/pkg/runner/step_action_remote.go

GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 10:05:49 -06:00

@ChristopherHX commented on GitHub (Jan 17, 2024):

This code is responsible for ignoring subpath in action

There is a problem when parsing that, it's simple not easy to find out what is meant.

You have a subpath as part of the uri, actions can reference a subfolder inside the repo.

name: Check out repository code with subpath
uses: https://giteainstance.com/git/repo/checkout.git@v3

Could mean both

repo: https://giteainstance.com/git/repo
subfolder: /checkout.git
version: v3
repo: https://giteainstance.com/git/repo/checkout.git (Ambiguous alternative interpretation)
subfolder: /
version: v3

Removing subfolder support (case 1) in Gitea Actions, would drop compat with GitHub Actions even more and allows the interpretation you want it to do.

@ChristopherHX commented on GitHub (Jan 17, 2024): > This code is responsible for ignoring subpath in action There is a problem when parsing that, it's simple not easy to find out what is meant. You have a subpath as part of the uri, actions can reference a subfolder inside the repo. > - name: Check out repository code with subpath uses: https://giteainstance.com/git/repo/checkout.git@v3 Could mean both - repo: `https://giteainstance.com/git/repo` subfolder: `/checkout.git` version: `v3` - repo: `https://giteainstance.com/git/repo/checkout.git` (Ambiguous alternative interpretation) subfolder: `/` version: `v3` Removing subfolder support (case 1) in Gitea Actions, would drop compat with GitHub Actions even more and allows the interpretation you want it to do.

GiteaMirror commented

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@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 19, 2024):

Agree. I am planning to remove subpath in gitea instance or make it work via redirecting in nginx. There seems no other solution.

@Shakthijuego commented on GitHub (Jan 19, 2024): Agree. I am planning to remove subpath in gitea instance or make it work via redirecting in nginx. There seems no other solution.

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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Mar 1, 2024):

Automatically locked because of our CONTRIBUTING guidelines

@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Mar 1, 2024): Automatically locked because of our [CONTRIBUTING guidelines](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#issue-locking)

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Reference: github-starred/gitea#12327