locally hosted version control system - CORE jails for e.g. SVN, GitLab?

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Hello,

I want to have a locally hosted version control system (no GitHub, since the free version seems to require public access of the data).

The feature set I am looking for is:

• I am the owner of the data
• no internet access
• I just want to store source code, which will be changed and therefor need a versioning
• free software:
  • SVN comes to mind > any other recommendations?
  • https://about.gitlab.com/install/ - how to do this with TN Core?
• client OSs: Windows, macOS

 

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[Patrick M. Hausen]

I run Gitea in a jail. Works great.

 

[djoshi]

I run Gitea in a jail. Works great.

Do you have a tutorial on how to set it up?

I am very new to TrueNas?

I get the following error:

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I don't use the plugins, don't know how this is supposed to work, sorry.

I created a standard base jail
enabled SSH
logged in
pkg install gitea
then worked from the gitea documentation: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-package/#freebsd

You will need basic system administration skills.

Kimd regards,
Patrick

 

[djoshi]

Thanks, I am very new, so please excuse my questions.

I created a Jail and enabled ssh using "Services". Then using the "Shell" I typed pkg install gitea.

It has been installed, but how can I verify that it has been installed correctly?

When I go to the IP address, I was expecting to see a git page, but I get

Hmmm… can't reach this page​

192.168.1.198 refused to connect.

 

[danb35]

192.168.1.198 refused to connect.

Did you enable and start the gitea service, as the docs that Patrick linked tell you (and tell you how) to do?

 

[djoshi]

Did you enable and start the gitea service, as the docs that Patrick linked tell you (and tell you how) to do?

Yes

Do i need to go to certain port with gitea?

I am using the following:

https://192.168.1.198/

 

[djoshi]

I am also getting the following , if it gives any indication what could be the problem

 

[danb35]

Do i need to go to certain port with gitea?

Looks like it:

Code:

root@gitea:~ # sockstat -l
USER     COMMAND    PID   FD PROTO  LOCAL ADDRESS         FOREIGN ADDRESS      
git      gitea      14474 12 tcp4   127.0.0.1:3000        *:*
root     syslogd    14004 5  dgram  /var/run/log
root     syslogd    14004 6  dgram  /var/run/logpriv

Also looks like it's only listening on 127.0.0.1, so you'll need to edit its config file (in /usr/local/etc/gitea/conf/app.ini) to listen on your jail's IP address.

 

[djoshi]

Yes, i see the same output.

Once again, sorry for my trivial questions, but how do i get to this file to edit in TrueNas?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You use an ssh client to log into the jail and a text based editor. If you don't know vi, you can use e.g. nano:

Code:

pkg install nano
rehash
nano /usr/local/etc/gitea/conf/app.ini
service gitea restart

 

[djoshi]

Ok, SSH client i have found is putty. Let me give it ago.

 

[djoshi]

Ok, when I use SSH, am i login to IP address of TrueNas, Jail IP adddress or 127.0.0.1?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You can use NAS IP address and user, become root (SSH can be enabled in the UI), then use

Code:

iocage console <jailname>

to become root inside the jail.

Or you enable SSH inside the jail and use the jail IP address.

Same iocage console ... as above to get inside the jail, then

Code:

sysrc sshd_enable=YES
service sshd start
adduser

to start sshd and add a user. The user needs to be a member of the "wheel" group to be able to use "su" to become root.

 

[djoshi]

Ok, I have manged to get something working with SSH and Putty. This is what I am seeing on SSH. There seems to be two IP address one for the server and one for the database. If i am correct i need to change the HTTP_ADDR only?

 

[djoshi]

Then when i do sockstat i get the following:

 

[danb35]

If i am correct i need to change the HTTP_ADDR only?

You also need to change ROOT_URL to match.

 

[djoshi]

Thanks

So ROOT_URL should be 192.168.1.249 and not local host?

What about the SQL database IP address should it also be 192.168.1.249?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Yes the ROOT_URL should match the IP address you use to communicate with gitea. Or better the hostname. If you run some internal DNS, you can create a hostname for that IP address there. Or you can install ahavi-app inside your jail and use gitea.local as the hostname. So whatever needs to be in your browser's address bar to access gitea - that's the root URL.

When you put 0.0.0.0 into the HTTP_ADDR gitea will be reachable by whatever IP address the jail has so you don't need to maintain that in two places.

The SQL database IP address is the address of your SQL server as used by gitea. Nothing else is accessing that database. So 127.0.0.1 is perfectly fine if the SQL server is in the same jail as gitea itself.

HTH,
Patrick

P.S. The idea with putty etc. is that you can copy and paste the text instead of a large screenshot. Please try to do that for future posts.