Complete installation without user interaction #8912

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GiteaMirror · 2025-11-02T08:22:59-06:00

GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 08:22:59 -06:00

Originally created by @osresearch on GitHub (May 5, 2022).

Feature Description

For building automated deployments it would be helpful if the installation could be completed without requiring any user interaction on the website. My scripts pre-provision all of the database, hostnames, etc information via the environment, but the scripts can't setup extra features like single-sign-on OIDC login until the database has been initialized by someone loading the install page and clicking "Install Gitea" at the bottom.

This could be done either via an environment var that says "everything is configured" or if there was an gitea admin command that would finalize the install and build the database.

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Originally created by @osresearch on GitHub (May 5, 2022). ### Feature Description For building automated deployments it would be helpful if the installation could be completed without requiring any user interaction on the website. My scripts pre-provision all of the database, hostnames, etc information via the environment, but the scripts can't setup extra features like single-sign-on OIDC login until the database has been initialized by someone loading the install page and clicking "`Install Gitea`" at the bottom. This could be done either via an environment var that says "everything is configured" or if there was an `gitea admin` command that would finalize the install and build the database. ### Screenshots _No response_

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GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 08:22:59 -06:00

@osresearch commented on GitHub (May 5, 2022):

I've tried using curl to POST the form data to the web site, but it looks like there might be some cookie management that needs to be done to get gitea to accept it.

@osresearch commented on GitHub (May 5, 2022): I've tried using `curl` to `POST` the form data to the web site, but it looks like there might be some cookie management that needs to be done to get `gitea` to accept it.

GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 08:23:00 -06:00

@wxiaoguang commented on GitHub (May 5, 2022):

Set INSTALL_LOCK=true in app.ini means the instance has been installed, then no installation page.

And you can refer to the helmchart config.

Feel free to reopen if you meet other problems.

@wxiaoguang commented on GitHub (May 5, 2022): Set `INSTALL_LOCK=true` in `app.ini` means the instance has been installed, then no installation page. And you can refer to the helmchart config. Feel free to reopen if you meet other problems.

GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 08:23:00 -06:00

@osresearch commented on GitHub (May 5, 2022):

Awesome! That worked, thanks!

@osresearch commented on GitHub (May 5, 2022): Awesome! That worked, thanks!

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Reference: github-starred/gitea#8912