Self-host Forgejo

A community-run hard fork of Gitea, stewarded by the Codeberg nonprofit. Near-identical to use, with independent, community-first governance.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 512 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install with Docker Compose

Save this as compose.yml and run docker compose up -d:

copy# Forgejo
services:
  forgejo:
    image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:7
    ports: ["3000:3000", "222:22"]
    volumes: ["./data:/data"]
# docker compose up -d  →  http://SERVER_IP:3000