Configuration Cheat Sheet

This is a cheat sheet for the Forgejo configuration file. It contains most of the settings that can be configured as well as their default values.

Any changes to the Forgejo configuration file should be made in custom/conf/app.ini or any corresponding location. When installing from a distribution, this will typically be found at /etc/forgejo/app.ini.

The defaults provided here are best-effort (not built automatically). They are accurately recorded in app.example.ini (s/main/<tag|release>). Any string in the format %(X)s is a feature powered by ini, for reading values recursively.

In the default values below, a value in the form $XYZ refers to an environment variable. See environment-to-ini for information on how environment variables are translated to app.ini variables. Values in the form XxYyZz refer to values listed as part of the default configuration. These notation forms will not work in your own app.ini file and are only listed here as documentation.

Values containing # or ; must be quoted using ` or """.

Note: A full restart is required for Forgejo configuration changes to take effect.

Default Configuration (non-`app.ini` configuration)

These values are environment-dependent but form the basis of a lot of values. They will be reported as part of the default configuration when running forgejo help or on start-up. The order they are emitted there is slightly different but we will list them here in the order they are set-up.

AppPath: This is the absolute path of the running forgejo binary.
AppWorkPath: This refers to “working path” of the forgejo binary. It is determined by using the first set thing in the following hierarchy:
- The --work-path flag passed to the binary
- The environment variable $FORGEJO_WORK_DIR
- A built-in value set at build time (see building from source)
- Otherwise, it defaults to the directory of the AppPath
- If any of the above are relative paths then they are made absolute against the directory of the AppPath
CustomPath: This is the base directory for custom templates and other options. It is determined by using the first set thing in the following hierarchy:
- The --custom-path flag passed to the binary
- The environment variable $FORGEJO_CUSTOM
- A built-in value set at build time (see building from source)
- Otherwise, it defaults to AppWorkPath/custom
- If any of the above are relative paths then they are made absolute against the directory of the AppWorkPath
CustomConf: This is the path to the app.ini file.
- The --config flag passed to the binary
- A built-in value set at build time (see building from source)
- Otherwise, it defaults to CustomPath/conf/app.ini
- If any of the above are relative paths then they are made absolute against the directory of the CustomPath

In addition, there is StaticRootPath which can be set as a built-in at build time, but will otherwise default to AppWorkPath

Overall (`DEFAULT`)

APP_NAME: Forgejo: Beyond coding. We forge.: Application name, used in the page title.
APP_SLOGAN: Application slogan, used in the page title.
APP_DISPLAY_NAME_FORMAT: {APP_NAME}: {APP_SLOGAN}: defines how the application full name should be presented. It is only used if APP_SLOGAN is set.
RUN_USER: current OS username/$USER/$USERNAME e.g. git: The user Forgejo will run as. This should be a dedicated system (non-user) account. Setting this incorrectly will cause Forgejo to not start.
RUN_MODE: prod: Application run mode, affects performance and debugging: dev or prod, default is prod. Mode dev makes Forgejo easier to develop and debug, values other than dev are treated as prod which is for production use.
WORK_PATH: the-work-path: The working directory, see the comment of AppWorkPath above.

Repository (`repository`)

ROOT: %(APP_DATA_PATH)s/gitea-repositories: Root path for storing all repository data. A relative path is interpreted as AppWorkPath/%(ROOT)s.
SCRIPT_TYPE: bash: The script type this server supports. Usually this is bash, but some users report that only sh is available.
DETECTED_CHARSETS_ORDER: UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, ISO-8859, windows-1252, ISO-8859, windows-1250, ISO-8859, ISO-8859, ISO-8859, windows-1253, ISO-8859, windows-1255, ISO-8859, windows-1251, windows-1256, KOI8-R, ISO-8859, windows-1254, Shift_JIS, GB18030, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, Big5, ISO-2022, ISO-2022, ISO-2022, IBM424_rtl, IBM424_ltr, IBM420_rtl, IBM420_ltr: Tie-break order of detected charsets - if the detected charsets have equal confidence, charsets earlier in the list will be chosen in preference to those later. Adding defaults will place the unnamed charsets at that point.
ANSI_CHARSET: <empty>: Default ANSI charset to override non-UTF-8 charsets to.
FORCE_PRIVATE: false: Force every new repository to be private.
DEFAULT_PRIVATE: last: Default private when creating a new repository. [last, private, public]
DEFAULT_PUSH_CREATE_PRIVATE: true: Default private when creating a new repository with push-to-create.
MAX_CREATION_LIMIT: -1: Global maximum creation limit of repositories per user, -1 means no limit.
PREFERRED_LICENSES: Apache-2.0, MIT”: Preferred Licenses to place at the top of the list. Name must match file name in options/license or custom/options/license.
DISABLE_HTTP_GIT: false: Disable the ability to interact with repositories over the HTTP protocol.
USE_COMPAT_SSH_URI: false: Force ssh:// clone url instead of scp-style uri when default SSH port is used.
GO_GET_CLONE_URL_PROTOCOL: https: Value for the “go get” request returns the repository url as https or ssh default is https.
ACCESS_CONTROL_ALLOW_ORIGIN: <empty>: Value for Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, default is not to present. WARNING: This maybe harmful to you website if you do not give it a right value.
DEFAULT_CLOSE_ISSUES_VIA_COMMITS_IN_ANY_BRANCH: false: Close an issue if a commit on a non default branch marks it as closed.
ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER: false: Allow users to push local repositories to Forgejo and have them automatically created for a user.
ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_ORG: false: Allow users to push local repositories to Forgejo and have them automatically created for an org.
DISABLED_REPO_UNITS: empty: Comma separated list of globally disabled repo units. Allowed values: [repo.issues, repo.ext_issues, repo.pulls, repo.wiki, repo.ext_wiki, repo.projects, repo.packages, repo.actions]
DEFAULT_REPO_UNITS: repo.code,repo.releases,repo.issues,repo.pulls,repo.wiki,repo.projects,repo.packages,repo.actions: Comma separated list of default new repo units. Allowed values: [repo.code, repo.releases, repo.issues, repo.pulls, repo.wiki, repo.projects, repo.packages, repo.actions]. Note: Code and Releases can currently not be deactivated. If you specify default repo units you should still list them for future compatibility. External wiki and issue tracker can’t be enabled by default as it requires additional settings. Disabled repo units will not be added to new repositories regardless if it is in the default list.
DEFAULT_FORK_REPO_UNITS: repo.code,repo.pulls: Comma separated list of default forked repo units. The set of allowed values and rules is the same as DEFAULT_REPO_UNITS.
PREFIX_ARCHIVE_FILES: true: Prefix archive files by placing them in a directory named after the repository.
DISABLE_MIGRATIONS: false: Disable migrating feature.
DISABLE_STARS: false: Disable stars feature.
DEFAULT_BRANCH: main: Default branch name of all repositories.
ALLOW_ADOPTION_OF_UNADOPTED_REPOSITORIES: false: Allow non-admin users to adopt unadopted repositories
ALLOW_DELETION_OF_UNADOPTED_REPOSITORIES: false: Allow non-admin users to delete unadopted repositories
DISABLE_DOWNLOAD_SOURCE_ARCHIVES: false: Don’t allow download source archive files from UI
ALLOW_FORK_WITHOUT_MAXIMUM_LIMIT: true: Allow fork repositories without maximum number limit

Repository - Editor (`repository.editor`)

LINE_WRAP_EXTENSIONS: .txt,.md,.markdown,.mdown,.mkd,.livemd,: List of file extensions for which lines should be wrapped in the Monaco editor. Separate extensions with a comma. To line wrap files without an extension, just put a comma
PREVIEWABLE_FILE_MODES: markdown: Valid file modes that have a preview API associated with them, such as api/v1/markdown. Separate the values by commas. The preview tab in edit mode won’t be displayed if the file extension doesn’t match.

Repository - Pull Request (`repository.pull-request`)

WORK_IN_PROGRESS_PREFIXES: WIP:,[WIP]: List of prefixes used in Pull Request title to mark them as Work In Progress. These are matched in a case-insensitive manner.
CLOSE_KEYWORDS: close, closes, closed, fix, fixes, fixed, resolve, resolves, resolved: List of keywords used in Pull Request comments to automatically close a related issue
REOPEN_KEYWORDS: reopen, reopens, reopened: List of keywords used in Pull Request comments to automatically reopen a related issue
DEFAULT_MERGE_STYLE: merge: Set default merge style for repository creating, valid options: merge, rebase, rebase-merge, squash, fast-forward-only
DEFAULT_MERGE_MESSAGE_COMMITS_LIMIT: 50: In the default merge message for squash commits include at most this many commits. Set to -1 to include all commits
DEFAULT_MERGE_MESSAGE_SIZE: 5120: In the default merge message for squash commits limit the size of the commit messages. Set to -1 to have no limit. Only used if POPULATE_SQUASH_COMMENT_WITH_COMMIT_MESSAGES is true.
DEFAULT_MERGE_MESSAGE_ALL_AUTHORS: false: In the default merge message for squash commits walk all commits to include all authors in the Co-authored-by otherwise just use those in the limited list
DEFAULT_MERGE_MESSAGE_MAX_APPROVERS: 10: In default merge messages limit the number of approvers listed as Reviewed-by:. Set to -1 to include all.
DEFAULT_MERGE_MESSAGE_OFFICIAL_APPROVERS_ONLY: true: In default merge messages only include approvers who are officially allowed to review.
POPULATE_SQUASH_COMMENT_WITH_COMMIT_MESSAGES: false: In default squash-merge messages include the commit message of all commits comprising the pull request.
ADD_CO_COMMITTER_TRAILERS: true: Add co-authored-by and co-committed-by trailers to merge commit messages if committer does not match author.
TEST_CONFLICTING_PATCHES_WITH_GIT_APPLY: false: PR patches are tested using a three-way merge method to discover if there are conflicts. If this setting is set to true, conflicting patches will be retested using git apply - This was the previous behaviour in 1.18 (and earlier) but is somewhat inefficient. Please report if you find that this setting is required.
RETARGET_CHILDREN_ON_MERGE: true: Retarget child pull requests to the parent pull request branch target on merge of parent pull request. It only works on merged PRs where the head and base branch target the same repo.

Repository - Issue (`repository.issue`)

LOCK_REASONS: Too heated,Off-topic,Resolved,Spam: A list of reasons why a Pull Request or Issue can be locked
MAX_PINNED: 3: Maximum number of pinned Issues per Repo. Set to 0 to disable pinning Issues.

Repository - Upload (`repository.upload`)

ENABLED: true: Whether repository file uploads are enabled
TEMP_PATH: data/tmp/uploads: Path for uploads (content gets deleted on Forgejo restart)
ALLOWED_TYPES: <empty>: Comma-separated list of allowed file extensions (.zip), mime types (text/plain) or wildcard type (image/*, audio/*, video/*). Empty value or */* allows all types.
FILE_MAX_SIZE: 50: Max size of each file in megabytes.
MAX_FILES: 5: Max number of files per upload

Repository - Release (`repository.release`)

ALLOWED_TYPES: <empty>: Comma-separated list of allowed file extensions (.zip), mime types (text/plain) or wildcard type (image/*, audio/*, video/*). Empty value or */* allows all types.
DEFAULT_PAGING_NUM: 10: The default paging number of releases user interface
For settings related to file attachments on releases, see the attachment section.

Repository - Signing (`repository.signing`)

SIGNING_KEY: default: [none, KEYID, default ]: Key to sign with.
SIGNING_NAME & SIGNING_EMAIL: if a KEYID is provided as the SIGNING_KEY, use these as the Name and Email address of the signer. These should match publicized name and email address for the key.
INITIAL_COMMIT: always: [never, pubkey, twofa, always]: Sign initial commit.
- never: Never sign
- pubkey: Only sign if the user has a public key
- twofa: Only sign if the user is logged in with twofa
- always: Always sign
- Options other than never and always can be combined as a comma separated list.
DEFAULT_TRUST_MODEL: collaborator: [collaborator, committer, collaboratorcommitter]: The default trust model used for verifying commits.
- collaborator: Trust signatures signed by keys of collaborators.
- committer: Trust signatures that match committers (This matches GitHub and will force Forgejo signed commits to have Forgejo as the committer).
- collaboratorcommitter: Trust signatures signed by keys of collaborators which match the committer.
WIKI: never: [never, pubkey, twofa, always, parentsigned]: Sign commits to wiki.
CRUD_ACTIONS: pubkey, twofa, parentsigned: [never, pubkey, twofa, parentsigned, always]: Sign CRUD actions.
- Options as above, with the addition of:
- parentsigned: Only sign if the parent commit is signed.
MERGES: pubkey, twofa, basesigned, commitssigned: [never, pubkey, twofa, approved, basesigned, commitssigned, always]: Sign merges.
- approved: Only sign approved merges to a protected branch.
- basesigned: Only sign if the parent commit in the base repo is signed.
- headsigned: Only sign if the head commit in the head branch is signed.
- commitssigned: Only sign if all the commits in the head branch to the merge point are signed.

Repository - Local (`repository.local`)

LOCAL_COPY_PATH: tmp/local-repo: Path for temporary local repository copies. Defaults to tmp/local-repo (content gets deleted on Forgejo restart)

Repository - MIME type mapping (`repository.mimetype_mapping`)

Configuration for set the expected MIME type based on file extensions of downloadable files. Configuration presents in key-value pairs and file extensions starts with leading ..

The following configuration set Content-Type: application/vnd.android.package-archive header when downloading files with .apk file extension.

.apk=application/vnd.android.package-archive

Badges (`badges`)

ENABLED: true: enable repository badges (via a generator like shields.io)
GENERATOR_URL_TEMPLATE: https://img.shields.io/badge/{{.label}}-{{.text}}-{{.color}}: The URL template used for the badge generator service.

CORS (`cors`)

ENABLED: false: enable cors headers (disabled by default)
ALLOW_DOMAIN: *: list of requesting origins that are allowed, eg: “https://*.example.com”
METHODS: GET,HEAD,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE,OPTIONS: list of methods allowed to request
MAX_AGE: 10m: max time to cache response
ALLOW_CREDENTIALS: false: allow request with credentials
HEADERS: Content-Type,User-Agent: additional headers that are permitted in requests
X_FRAME_OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN: Set the X-Frame-Options header value.

UI (`ui`)

EXPLORE_PAGING_NUM: 20: Number of repositories that are shown in one explore page.
ISSUE_PAGING_NUM: 20: Number of issues that are shown in one page (for all pages that list issues, milestones, projects).
MEMBERS_PAGING_NUM: 20: Number of members that are shown in organization members.
FEED_MAX_COMMIT_NUM: 5: Number of maximum commits shown in one activity feed.
FEED_PAGING_NUM: 20: Number of items that are displayed in home feed.
SITEMAP_PAGING_NUM: 20: Number of items that are displayed in a single subsitemap.
GRAPH_MAX_COMMIT_NUM: 100: Number of maximum commits shown in the commit graph.
CODE_COMMENT_LINES: 4: Number of line of codes shown for a code comment.
DEFAULT_THEME: forgejo-auto: [forgejo-auto, forgejo-light, forgejo-dark, auto, gitea, arc-green]: Set the default theme for the Forgejo install.
SHOW_USER_EMAIL: true: Whether the email of the user should be shown in the Explore Users page.
THEMES: forgejo-auto, forgejo-light, forgejo-dark, gitea-auto, gitea-light, gitea-dark, forgejo-auto-deuteranopia-protanopia, forgejo-light-deuteranopia-protanopia, forgejo-dark-deuteranopia-protanopia, forgejo-auto-tritanopia, forgejo-light-tritanopia, forgejo-dark-tritanopia: All available themes. Allow users select personalized themes. regardless of the value of DEFAULT_THEME.
MAX_DISPLAY_FILE_SIZE: 8388608: Max size of files to be displayed (default is 8MiB)
REACTIONS: All available reactions users can choose on issues/PRs and comments Values can be emoji alias (:smile:) or a unicode emoji. For custom reactions, add a tightly cropped square image to public/assets/img/emoji/reaction_name.png
REACTION_MAX_USER_NUM: 10: Change the number of users that are displayed in reactions tooltip (triggered by mouse hover).
CUSTOM_EMOJIS: forgejo, gitea, codeberg, gitlab, git, github, gogs: Additional Emojis not defined in the utf8 standard. By default we support Forgejo (:forgejo:), to add more copy them to public/assets/img/emoji/emoji_name.png and add it to this config.
DEFAULT_SHOW_FULL_NAME: false: Whether the full name of the users should be shown where possible. If the full name isn’t set, the username will be used.
SEARCH_REPO_DESCRIPTION: true: Whether to search within description at repository search on explore page.
ONLY_SHOW_RELEVANT_REPOS: false Whether to only show relevant repos on the explore page when no keyword is specified and default sorting is used. A repo is considered irrelevant if it’s a fork or if it has no metadata (no description, no icon, no topic).
AMBIGUOUS_UNICODE_DETECTION: true: Detect ambiguous unicode characters in files and show warnings for it.
SKIP_ESCAPE_CONTEXTS: <empty>: [diff, file-view, wiki]: Comma separated list of which escape context the ambiguous unicode detection shouldn’t be run in. wiki is for content on the wiki pages, file-view is for (rendered) file content and diff is for the diff of an commit and pull request.

UI - Admin (`ui.admin`)

USER_PAGING_NUM: 50: Number of users that are shown in one page.
REPO_PAGING_NUM: 50: Number of repos that are shown in one page.
NOTICE_PAGING_NUM: 25: Number of notices that are shown in one page.
ORG_PAGING_NUM: 50: Number of organizations that are shown in one page.

UI - User (`ui.user`)

REPO_PAGING_NUM: 15: Number of repos that are shown in one page.

UI - Metadata (`ui.meta`)

AUTHOR: Forgejo - Beyond coding. We forge.: Author meta tag of the homepage.
DESCRIPTION: Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.: Description meta tag of the homepage.
KEYWORDS: git,forge,forgejo: Keywords meta tag of the homepage.

UI - Notification (`ui.notification`)

MIN_TIMEOUT: 10s: These options control how often notification endpoint is polled to update the notification count. On page load the notification count will be checked after MIN_TIMEOUT. The timeout will increase to MAX_TIMEOUT by TIMEOUT_STEP if the notification count is unchanged. Set MIN_TIMEOUT to -1 to turn off.
MAX_TIMEOUT: 60s.
TIMEOUT_STEP: 10s.
EVENT_SOURCE_UPDATE_TIME: 10s: This setting determines how often the database is queried to update notification counts. If the browser client supports EventSource and SharedWorker, a SharedWorker will be used in preference to polling notification endpoint. Set to -1 to disable the EventSource.

UI - SVG Images (`ui.svg`)

ENABLE_RENDER: true: Whether to render SVG files as images. If SVG rendering is disabled, SVG files are displayed as text and cannot be embedded in markdown files as images.

UI - CSV Files (`ui.csv`)

MAX_FILE_SIZE: 524288 (512kb): Maximum allowed file size in bytes to render CSV files as table. (Set to 0 for no limit).

Markdown (`markdown`)

ENABLE_HARD_LINE_BREAK_IN_COMMENTS: true: Render soft line breaks as hard line breaks in comments, which means a single newline character between paragraphs will cause a line break and adding trailing whitespace to paragraphs is not necessary to force a line break.
ENABLE_HARD_LINE_BREAK_IN_DOCUMENTS: false: Render soft line breaks as hard line breaks in documents, which means a single newline character between paragraphs will cause a line break and adding trailing whitespace to paragraphs is not necessary to force a line break.
CUSTOM_URL_SCHEMES: Use a comma separated list (ftp,git,svn) to indicate additional URL hyperlinks to be rendered in Markdown. URLs beginning in http and https are always displayed. If this entry is empty, all URL schemes are allowed.
FILE_EXTENSIONS: .md,.markdown,.mdown,.mkd,.livemd: List of file extensions that should be rendered/edited as Markdown. Separate the extensions with a comma. To render files without any extension as markdown, just put a comma.
ENABLE_MATH: true: Enables detection of $...$, \[...\], $...$ and $$...$$ blocks as math blocks.

Server (`server`)

APP_DATA_PATH: AppWorkPath/data: This is the default root path for storing data.
PROTOCOL: http: [http, https, fcgi, http+unix, fcgi+unix]
- Note: Value must be lowercase.
USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL: false: Expect PROXY protocol headers on connections. Warning: this feature is not working.
PROXY_PROTOCOL_TLS_BRIDGING: false: When protocol is https, expect PROXY protocol headers after TLS negotiation.
PROXY_PROTOCOL_HEADER_TIMEOUT: 5s: Timeout to wait for PROXY protocol header (set to 0 to have no timeout)
PROXY_PROTOCOL_ACCEPT_UNKNOWN: false: Accept PROXY protocol headers with Unknown type.
DOMAIN: localhost: Domain name of this server.
ROOT_URL: %(PROTOCOL)s://%(DOMAIN)s:%(HTTP_PORT)s/: Overwrite the automatically generated public URL. This is useful if the internal and the external URL don’t match (e.g. in Docker).
STATIC_URL_PREFIX: <empty>: Overwrite this option to request static resources from a different URL. This includes CSS files, images, JS files and web fonts. Avatar images are dynamic resources and still served by Forgejo. The option can be just a different path, as in /static, or another domain, as in https://cdn.example.com. Requests are then made as %(ROOT_URL)s/static/assets/css/index.css or https://cdn.example.com/assets/css/index.css respectively. The static files are located in the public/ directory of the Forgejo source repository. You can proxy the STATIC_URL_PREFIX requests to Forgejo server to serve the static assets, or copy the manually built Forgejo assets from $FORGEJO_BUILD/public to the assets location, eg: /var/www/assets, make sure $STATIC_URL_PREFIX/assets/css/index.css points to /var/www/assets/css/index.css.
HTTP_ADDR: 0.0.0.0: HTTP listen address.
- If PROTOCOL is set to fcgi, Forgejo will listen for FastCGI requests on TCP socket defined by HTTP_ADDR and HTTP_PORT configuration settings.
- If PROTOCOL is set to http+unix or fcgi+unix, this should be the name of the Unix socket file to use. Relative paths will be made absolute against the AppWorkPath.
HTTP_PORT: 3000: HTTP listen port.
- If PROTOCOL is set to fcgi, Forgejo will listen for FastCGI requests on TCP socket defined by HTTP_ADDR and HTTP_PORT configuration settings.
UNIX_SOCKET_PERMISSION: 666: Permissions for the Unix socket.
LOCAL_ROOT_URL: %(PROTOCOL)s://%(HTTP_ADDR)s:%(HTTP_PORT)s/: Local (DMZ) URL for Forgejo workers (such as SSH update) accessing web service. In most cases you do not need to change the default value. Alter it only if your SSH server node is not the same as HTTP node. For different protocol, the default values are different. If PROTOCOL is http+unix, the default value is http://unix/. If PROTOCOL is fcgi or fcgi+unix, the default value is %(PROTOCOL)s://%(HTTP_ADDR)s:%(HTTP_PORT)s/. If listen on 0.0.0.0, the default value is %(PROTOCOL)s://localhost:%(HTTP_PORT)s/, Otherwise the default value is %(PROTOCOL)s://%(HTTP_ADDR)s:%(HTTP_PORT)s/.
LOCAL_USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL: %(USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL)s: When making local connections pass the PROXY protocol header. This should be set to false if the local connection will go through the proxy.
PER_WRITE_TIMEOUT: 30s: Timeout for any write to the connection. (Set to -1 to disable all timeouts.)
PER_WRITE_PER_KB_TIMEOUT: 10s: Timeout per Kb written to connections.
DISABLE_SSH: false: Disable SSH feature when it’s not available.
START_SSH_SERVER: false: When enabled, use the built-in SSH server.
SSH_SERVER_USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL: false: Expect PROXY protocol header on connections to the built-in SSH Server.
BUILTIN_SSH_SERVER_USER: %(RUN_USER)s: Username to use for the built-in SSH Server.
SSH_USER: %(BUILTIN_SSH_SERVER_USER)s: SSH username displayed in clone URLs. This is only for people who configure the SSH server themselves; in most cases, you want to leave this blank and modify the BUILTIN_SSH_SERVER_USER.
SSH_DOMAIN: %(DOMAIN)s: Domain name of this server, used for displayed clone URL.
SSH_PORT: 22: SSH port displayed in clone URL.
SSH_LISTEN_HOST: 0.0.0.0: Listen address for the built-in SSH server.
SSH_LISTEN_PORT: %(SSH_PORT)s: Port for the built-in SSH server.
SSH_ROOT_PATH: ~/.ssh: Root path of SSH directory.
SSH_CREATE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE: true: Forgejo will create a authorized_keys file by default when it is not using the internal ssh server. If you intend to use the AuthorizedKeysCommand functionality then you should turn this off.
SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_BACKUP: false: Enable SSH Authorized Key Backup when rewriting all keys, default is false.
SSH_TRUSTED_USER_CA_KEYS: <empty>: Specifies the public keys of certificate authorities that are trusted to sign user certificates for authentication. Multiple keys should be comma separated. E.g.ssh-<algorithm> <key> or ssh-<algorithm> <key1>, ssh-<algorithm> <key2>. For more information see TrustedUserCAKeys in the sshd config man pages. When empty no file will be created and SSH_AUTHORIZED_PRINCIPALS_ALLOW will default to off.
SSH_TRUSTED_USER_CA_KEYS_FILENAME: RUN_USER/.ssh/gitea-trusted-user-ca-keys.pem: Absolute path of the TrustedUserCaKeys file Forgejo will manage. If you’re running your own ssh server and you want to use the Forgejo managed file you’ll also need to modify your sshd_config to point to this file. The official docker image will automatically work without further configuration.
SSH_AUTHORIZED_PRINCIPALS_ALLOW: off or username, email: [off, username, email, anything]: Specify the principals values that users are allowed to use as principal. When set to anything no checks are done on the principal string. When set to off authorized principal are not allowed to be set.
SSH_CREATE_AUTHORIZED_PRINCIPALS_FILE: false/true: Forgejo will create a authorized_principals file by default when it is not using the internal ssh server and SSH_AUTHORIZED_PRINCIPALS_ALLOW is not off.
SSH_AUTHORIZED_PRINCIPALS_BACKUP: false/true: Enable SSH Authorized Principals Backup when rewriting all keys, default is true if SSH_AUTHORIZED_PRINCIPALS_ALLOW is not off.
SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_COMMAND_TEMPLATE: {{.AppPath}} --config={{.CustomConf}} serv key-{{.Key.ID}}: Set the template for the command to passed on authorized keys. Possible keys are: AppPath, AppWorkPath, CustomConf, CustomPath, Key - where Key is a models/asymkey.PublicKey and the others are strings which are shellquoted.
SSH_SERVER_CIPHERS: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com, aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr, aes128-gcm@openssh.com, aes256-gcm@openssh.com: For the built-in SSH server, choose the ciphers to support for SSH connections, for system SSH this setting has no effect.
SSH_SERVER_KEY_EXCHANGES: curve25519-sha256, ecdh-sha2-nistp256, ecdh-sha2-nistp384, ecdh-sha2-nistp521, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1: For the built-in SSH server, choose the key exchange algorithms to support for SSH connections, for system SSH this setting has no effect.
SSH_SERVER_MACS: hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com, hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha1: For the built-in SSH server, choose the MACs to support for SSH connections, for system SSH this setting has no effect
SSH_SERVER_HOST_KEYS: ssh/gitea.rsa, ssh/gogs.rsa: For the built-in SSH server, choose the keypairs to offer as the host key. The private key should be at SSH_SERVER_HOST_KEY and the public SSH_SERVER_HOST_KEY.pub. Relative paths are made absolute relative to the APP_DATA_PATH. If no key exists a 4096 bit RSA key will be created for you.
SSH_KEY_TEST_PATH: /tmp: Directory to create temporary files in when testing public keys using ssh-keygen, default is the system temporary directory.
SSH_KEYGEN_PATH: <empty>: Use ssh-keygen to parse public SSH keys. The value is passed to the shell. By default, Forgejo does the parsing itself.
SSH_EXPOSE_ANONYMOUS: false: Enable exposure of SSH clone URL to anonymous visitors, default is false.
SSH_PER_WRITE_TIMEOUT: 30s: Timeout for any write to the SSH connections. (Set to -1 to disable all timeouts.)
SSH_PER_WRITE_PER_KB_TIMEOUT: 10s: Timeout per Kb written to SSH connections.
MINIMUM_KEY_SIZE_CHECK: true: Indicate whether to check minimum key size with corresponding type.
OFFLINE_MODE: true: Disables use of CDN for static files and Gravatar for profile pictures.
CERT_FILE: https/cert.pem: Cert file path used for HTTPS. When chaining, the server certificate must come first, then intermediate CA certificates (if any). This is ignored if ENABLE_ACME=true. Paths are relative to CUSTOM_PATH.
KEY_FILE: https/key.pem: Key file path used for HTTPS. This is ignored if ENABLE_ACME=true. Paths are relative to CUSTOM_PATH.
STATIC_ROOT_PATH: StaticRootPath: Upper level of template and static files path.
APP_DATA_PATH: data (/data/gitea on docker): Default path for application data. Relative paths will be made absolute against AppWorkPath.
STATIC_CACHE_TIME: 6h: Web browser cache time for static resources on custom/, public/ and all uploaded avatars. Note that this cache is disabled when RUN_MODE is “dev”.
ENABLE_GZIP: false: Enable gzip compression for runtime-generated content, static resources excluded.
ENABLE_PPROF: false: Application profiling (memory and cpu). For “web” command it listens on localhost:6060. For “serv” command it dumps to disk at PPROF_DATA_PATH as (cpuprofile|memprofile)_<username>_<temporary id>
PPROF_DATA_PATH: AppWorkPath/data/tmp/pprof: PPROF_DATA_PATH, use an absolute path when you start Forgejo as service
LANDING_PAGE: home: Landing page for unauthenticated users [home, explore, organizations, login, custom]. Where custom would instead be any URL such as “/org/repo” or even https://anotherwebsite.com
LFS_START_SERVER: false: Enables Git LFS support.
LFS_CONTENT_PATH: %(APP_DATA_PATH)s/lfs: Default LFS content path. (if it is on local storage.) DEPRECATED use settings in [lfs].
LFS_JWT_SECRET: <empty>: LFS authentication secret, change this a unique string.
LFS_JWT_SECRET_URI: <empty>: Instead of defining LFS_JWT_SECRET in the configuration, this configuration option can be used to give Forgejo a path to a file that contains the secret (example value: file:/etc/forgejo/lfs_jwt_secret)
LFS_HTTP_AUTH_EXPIRY: 24h: LFS authentication validity period in time.Duration, pushes taking longer than this may fail.
LFS_MAX_FILE_SIZE: 0: Maximum allowed LFS file size in bytes (Set to 0 for no limit).
LFS_LOCKS_PAGING_NUM: 50: Maximum number of LFS Locks returned per page.
REDIRECT_OTHER_PORT: false: If true and PROTOCOL is https, allows redirecting http requests on PORT_TO_REDIRECT to the https port Forgejo listens on.
REDIRECTOR_USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL: %(USE_PROXY_PROTOCOL)s: expect PROXY protocol header on connections to https redirector.
PORT_TO_REDIRECT: 80: Port for the http redirection service to listen on. Used when REDIRECT_OTHER_PORT is true.
SSL_MIN_VERSION: TLSv1.2: Set the minimum version of ssl support.
SSL_MAX_VERSION: <empty>: Set the maximum version of ssl support.
SSL_CURVE_PREFERENCES: X25519,P256: Set the preferred curves,
SSL_CIPHER_SUITES: ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_256_gcm_sha384,ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_256_gcm_sha384,ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_128_gcm_sha256,ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_128_gcm_sha256,ecdhe_ecdsa_with_chacha20_poly1305,ecdhe_rsa_with_chacha20_poly1305: Set the preferred cipher suites.
- If there is no hardware support for AES suites, by default the ChaCha suites will be preferred over the AES suites.
- supported suites as of Go 1.18 are:
  - TLS 1.0 - 1.2 cipher suites
    - “rsa_with_rc4_128_sha”
    - “rsa_with_3des_ede_cbc_sha”
    - “rsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha”
    - “rsa_with_aes_256_cbc_sha”
    - “rsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha256”
    - “rsa_with_aes_128_gcm_sha256”
    - “rsa_with_aes_256_gcm_sha384”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_rc4_128_sha”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_256_cbc_sha”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_rc4_128_sha”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_3des_ede_cbc_sha”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_256_cbc_sha”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha256”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha256”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_128_gcm_sha256”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_128_gcm_sha256”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_aes_256_gcm_sha384”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_aes_256_gcm_sha384”
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_chacha20_poly1305_sha256”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_chacha20_poly1305_sha256”
  - TLS 1.3 cipher suites
    - “aes_128_gcm_sha256”
    - “aes_256_gcm_sha384”
    - “chacha20_poly1305_sha256”
  - Aliased names
    - “ecdhe_rsa_with_chacha20_poly1305” is an alias for “ecdhe_rsa_with_chacha20_poly1305_sha256”
    - “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_chacha20_poly1305” is alias for “ecdhe_ecdsa_with_chacha20_poly1305_sha256”
ENABLE_ACME: false: Flag to enable automatic certificate management via an ACME capable Certificate Authority (CA) server (default: Let’s Encrypt). If enabled, CERT_FILE and KEY_FILE are ignored, and the CA must resolve DOMAIN to this Forgejo server. Ensure that DNS records are set and either port 80 or port 443 are accessible by the CA server (the public internet by default), and redirected to the appropriate ports PORT_TO_REDIRECT or HTTP_PORT respectively.
ACME_URL: <empty>: The CA’s ACME directory URL, e.g. for a self-hosted smallstep CA server, it can look like https://ca.example.com/acme/acme/directory. If left empty, it defaults to using Let’s Encrypt’s production CA (check LETSENCRYPT_ACCEPTTOS as well).
ACME_ACCEPTTOS: false: This is an explicit check that you accept the terms of service of the ACME provider. The default is Let’s Encrypt terms of service.
ACME_DIRECTORY: https: Directory that the certificate manager will use to cache information such as certs and private keys.
ACME_EMAIL: <empty>: Email used for the ACME registration. Usually it is to notify about problems with issued certificates.
ACME_CA_ROOT: <empty>: The CA’s root certificate. If left empty, it defaults to using the system’s trust chain.
ALLOW_GRACEFUL_RESTARTS: true: Perform a graceful restart on SIGHUP
GRACEFUL_HAMMER_TIME: 60s: After a restart the parent process will stop accepting new connections and will allow requests to finish before stopping. Shutdown will be forced if it takes longer than this time.
STARTUP_TIMEOUT: 0: Shuts down the server if startup takes longer than the provided time. On Windows setting this sends a waithint to the SVC host to tell the SVC host startup may take some time. Please note startup is determined by the opening of the listeners - HTTP/HTTPS/SSH. Indexers may take longer to startup and can have their own timeouts.

Database (`database`)

DB_TYPE: mysql: The database type in use [mysql, postgres, sqlite3].
HOST: 127.0.0.1:3306: Database host address and port or absolute path for unix socket [mysql, postgres] (ex: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock).
NAME: forgejo: Database name.
USER: root: Database username.
PASSWD: <empty>: Database user password. Use `your password` or """your password""" for quoting if you use special characters in the password.
CHARSET_COLLATION: empty: (MySQL only) Forgejo expects to use a case-sensitive collation for database. Leave it empty to use the default collation.
SCHEMA: <empty>: For PostgreSQL only, schema to use if different from “public”. The schema must exist beforehand, the user must have creation privileges on it, and the user search path must be set to the look into the schema first (e.g. ALTER USER user SET SEARCH_PATH = schema_name,"$user",public;).
SSL_MODE: disable: SSL/TLS encryption mode for connecting to the database. This option is only applied for PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB.
- Valid values for MySQL/MariaDB:
  - true: Enable TLS with verification of the database server certificate against its root certificate. When selecting this option make sure that the root certificate required to validate the database server certificate (e.g. the CA certificate) is on the system certificate store of both the database and Forgejo servers. See your system documentation for instructions on how to add a CA certificate to the certificate store.
  - false: Disable TLS.
  - disable: Alias for false, for compatibility with PostgreSQL.
  - skip-verify: Enable TLS without database server certificate verification. Use this option if you have self-signed or invalid certificate on the database server.
  - prefer: Enable TLS with fallback to non-TLS connection.
- Valid values for PostgreSQL:
  - disable: Disable TLS.
  - require: Enable TLS without any verifications.
  - verify-ca: Enable TLS with verification of the database server certificate against its root certificate.
  - verify-full: Enable TLS and verify the database server name matches the given certificate in either the Common Name or Subject Alternative Name fields.
SQLITE_TIMEOUT: 500: Query timeout for SQLite3 only.
SQLITE_JOURNAL_MODE: "": Change journal mode for SQlite3. Can be used to enable WAL mode when high load causes write congestion. See SQlite3 docs for possible values. Defaults to the default for the database file, often DELETE.
ITERATE_BUFFER_SIZE: 50: Internal buffer size for iterating.
PATH: data/forgejo.db: For SQLite3 only, the database file path.
LOG_SQL: false: Log the executed SQL.
DB_RETRIES: 10: How many ORM init / DB connect attempts allowed.
DB_RETRY_BACKOFF: 3s: time.Duration to wait before trying another ORM init / DB connect attempt, if failure occurred.
MAX_OPEN_CONNS 100: Database maximum open connections. Default is 100 which is the lowest default from Postgres (MariaDB + MySQL default to 151). Setting this value higher than your database server can handle will lead to issues. If you require high concurrency, try to increase this value for both Forgejo and your database server.
MAX_IDLE_CONNS 2: Max idle database connections on connection pool, default is 2 - this will be capped to MAX_OPEN_CONNS.
CONN_MAX_LIFETIME 0 or 3s: Sets the maximum amount of time a DB connection may be reused - default is 0, meaning there is no limit (except on MySQL/MariaDB where it is 3s - see #6804 & #7071).
CONN_MAX_IDLETIME 0: Sets the maximum amount of time a DB connection may be idle - default is 0, meaning there is no limit.
AUTO_MIGRATION true: Whether execute database models migrations automatically.
SLOW_QUERY_THRESHOLD: 5s: Sets the threshold for SQL queries before they are logged as slow queries in the log.

Please see #8540 & #8273 for further discussion of the appropriate values for MAX_OPEN_CONNS, MAX_IDLE_CONNS & CONN_MAX_LIFETIME and their relation to port exhaustion.

Indexer (`indexer`)

ISSUE_INDEXER_TYPE: bleve: Issue indexer type, currently supported: bleve, db, elasticsearch or meilisearch.
ISSUE_INDEXER_CONN_STR: ****: Issue indexer connection string, available when ISSUE_INDEXER_TYPE is elasticsearch (e.g. http://elastic:password@localhost:9200) or meilisearch (e.g. http://:apikey@localhost:7700)
ISSUE_INDEXER_NAME: gitea_issues: Issue indexer name, available when ISSUE_INDEXER_TYPE is elasticsearch or meilisearch.
ISSUE_INDEXER_PATH: indexers/issues.bleve: Index file used for issue search; available when ISSUE*INDEXER_TYPE is bleve and elasticsearch. Relative paths will be made absolute against *AppWorkPath_.
REPO_INDEXER_ENABLED: false: Enables code search (uses a lot of disk space, about 6 times more than the repository size). If disabled, code search will be limited within a single repository.
REPO_INDEXER_REPO_TYPES: sources,forks,mirrors,templates: Repo indexer units. The items to index could be sources, forks, mirrors, templates or any combination of them separated by a comma. If empty then it defaults to sources only, as if you’d like to disable fully please see REPO_INDEXER_ENABLED.
REPO_INDEXER_TYPE: bleve: Code search engine type, could be bleve or elasticsearch.
REPO_INDEXER_PATH: indexers/repos.bleve: Index file used for code search.
REPO_INDEXER_CONN_STR: ****: Code indexer connection string, available when REPO_INDEXER_TYPE is elasticsearch. i.e. http://elastic:password@localhost:9200
REPO_INDEXER_NAME: gitea_codes: Code indexer name, available when REPO_INDEXER_TYPE is elasticsearch
REPO_INDEXER_INCLUDE: empty: A comma separated list of glob patterns (see https://github.com/gobwas/glob) to include in the index. Use **.txt to match any files with .txt extension. An empty list means include all files.
REPO_INDEXER_EXCLUDE: empty: A comma separated list of glob patterns (see https://github.com/gobwas/glob) to exclude from the index. Files that match this list will not be indexed, even if they match in REPO_INDEXER_INCLUDE.
REPO_INDEXER_EXCLUDE_VENDORED: true: Exclude vendored files from index.
MAX_FILE_SIZE: 1048576: Maximum size in bytes of files to be indexed.
STARTUP_TIMEOUT: 30s: If the indexer takes longer than this timeout to start - fail. (This timeout will be added to the hammer time above for child processes - as bleve will not start until the previous parent is shutdown.) Set to -1 to never timeout.

Queue (`queue` and `queue.*`)

Configuration at [queue] will set defaults for queues with overrides for individual queues at [queue.*]. (However see below.)

TYPE: level: General queue type, currently support: level (uses a LevelDB internally), channel, redis, dummy. Invalid types are treated as level.
DATADIR: queues/common: Base DataDir for storing level queues. DATADIR for individual queues can be set in queue.name sections. Relative paths will be made absolute against %(APP_DATA_PATH)s.
LENGTH: 100000: Maximal queue size before channel queues block
BATCH_LENGTH: 20: Batch data before passing to the handler
CONN_STR: redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0: Connection string for the Redis queue type. For redis-cluster use redis+cluster://127.0.0.1:6379/0. Options can be set using query params. Similarly, LevelDB options can also be set using: leveldb://relative/path?option=value or leveldb:///absolute/path?option=value, and will override DATADIR
QUEUE_NAME: _queue: The suffix for default Redis and disk queue name. Individual queues will default to nameQUEUE_NAME but can be overridden in the specific queue.name section.
SET_NAME: _unique: The suffix that will be added to the default Redis and disk queue set name for unique queues. Individual queues will default to nameQUEUE_NAMESET_NAME but can be overridden in the specific queue.name section.
MAX_WORKERS: (dynamic): Maximum number of worker go-routines for the queue. Default value is “CpuNum/2” clipped to between 1 and 10.

Forgejo creates the following non-unique queues:

code_indexer
issue_indexer
notification-service
task
mail
push_update

And the following unique queues:

repo_stats_update
repo-archive
mirror
pr_patch_checker

Admin (`admin`)

DEFAULT_EMAIL_NOTIFICATIONS: enabled: Default configuration for email notifications for users (user configurable). Options: enabled, onmention, disabled
DISABLE_REGULAR_ORG_CREATION: false: Disallow regular (non-admin) users from creating organizations.
USER_DISABLED_FEATURES: empty Disabled features for users, could be deletion, manage_ssh_keys, manage_gpg_keys and more features can be added in future.
- deletion: User cannot delete their own account.
- manage_ssh_keys: User cannot configure ssh keys.
- manage_gpg_keys: User cannot configure gpg keys.
EXTERNAL_USER_DISABLE_FEATURES: empty: Comma separated list of disabled features ONLY if the user has an external login type (eg. LDAP, Oauth, etc.), could be deletion, manage_ssh_keys, manage_gpg_keys. This setting is independent from USER_DISABLED_FEATURES and supplements its behavior.
- deletion: User cannot delete their own account.
- manage_ssh_keys: User cannot configure ssh keys.
- manage_gpg_keys: User cannot configure gpg keys.
SEND_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL_ON_NEW_USER: false: enable email notifications to instance admins on new user sign-up. It requires ENABLE_NOTIFY_MAIL to be true.

Security (`security`)

INSTALL_LOCK: false: Controls access to the installation page. When set to “true”, the installation page is not accessible.
SECRET_KEY: <random at every install>: Global secret key. This key is VERY IMPORTANT, if you lost it, the data encrypted by it (like 2FA secret) can’t be decrypted anymore.
SECRET_KEY_URI: <empty>: Instead of defining SECRET_KEY, this option can be used to use the key stored in a file (example value: file:/etc/forgejo/secret_key). It shouldn’t be lost like SECRET_KEY.
LOGIN_REMEMBER_DAYS: 31: Cookie lifetime, in days.
COOKIE_REMEMBER_NAME: gitea_incredible: Name of cookie used to store authentication information.
REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_USER: X-WEBAUTH-USER: Header name for reverse proxy authentication.
REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_EMAIL: X-WEBAUTH-EMAIL: Header name for reverse proxy authentication provided email.
REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_FULL_NAME: X-WEBAUTH-FULLNAME: Header name for reverse proxy authentication provided full name.
REVERSE_PROXY_LIMIT: 1: Interpret X-Forwarded-For header or the X-Real-IP header and set this as the remote IP for the request. Number of trusted proxy count. Set to zero to not use these headers.
REVERSE_PROXY_TRUSTED_PROXIES: 127.0.0.0/8,::1/128: List of IP addresses and networks separated by comma of trusted proxy servers. Use * to trust all.
DISABLE_GIT_HOOKS: true: Set to false to enable users with Git Hook privilege to create custom Git Hooks. WARNING: Custom Git Hooks can be used to perform arbitrary code execution on the host operating system. This enables the users to access and modify this config file and the Forgejo database and interrupt the Forgejo service. By modifying the Forgejo database, users can gain Forgejo administrator privileges. It also enables them to access other resources available to the user on the operating system that is running the Forgejo instance and perform arbitrary actions in the name of the Forgejo OS user. This maybe harmful to you website or your operating system. Setting this to true does not change existing hooks in git repos; adjust it before if necessary.
DISABLE_WEBHOOKS: false: Set to true to disable webhooks feature.
ONLY_ALLOW_PUSH_IF_GITEA_ENVIRONMENT_SET: true: Set to false to allow local users to push to gitea-repositories without setting up the Forgejo environment. This is not recommended and if you want local users to push to Forgejo repositories you should set the environment appropriately.
IMPORT_LOCAL_PATHS: false: Set to false to prevent all users (including admin) from importing local path on server.
INTERNAL_TOKEN: <random at every install if no uri set>: Secret used to validate communication within Forgejo binary.
INTERNAL_TOKEN_URI: <empty>: Instead of defining INTERNAL_TOKEN in the configuration, this configuration option can be used to give Forgejo a path to a file that contains the internal token (example value: file:/etc/forgejo/internal_token)
PASSWORD_HASH_ALGO: pbkdf2: The hash algorithm to use [argon2, pbkdf2, pbkdf2_v1, pbkdf2_hi, scrypt, bcrypt], argon2 and scrypt will spend significant amounts of memory.
- Note: The default parameters for pbkdf2 hashing have changed - the previous settings are available as pbkdf2_v1 but are not recommended.
- The hash functions may be tuned by using $ after the algorithm:
  - argon2$<time>$<memory>$<threads>$<key-length>
  - bcrypt$<cost>
  - pbkdf2$<iterations>$<key-length>
  - scrypt$<n>$<r>$<p>$<key-length>
- The defaults are:
  - argon2: argon2$2$65536$8$50
  - bcrypt: bcrypt$10
  - pbkdf2: pbkdf2$50000$50
  - pbkdf2_v1: pbkdf2$10000$50
  - pbkdf2_v2: pbkdf2$50000$50
  - pbkdf2_hi: pbkdf2$320000$50
  - scrypt: scrypt$65536$16$2$50
- Adjusting the algorithm parameters using this functionality is done at your own risk.
CSRF_COOKIE_HTTP_ONLY: true: Set false to allow JavaScript to read CSRF cookie.
MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH: 8: Minimum password length for new users.
PASSWORD_COMPLEXITY: off: Comma separated list of character classes required to pass minimum complexity. If left empty or no valid values are specified, checking is disabled (off):
- lower - use one or more lower latin characters
- upper - use one or more upper latin characters
- digit - use one or more digits
- spec - use one or more special characters as !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~
- off - do not check password complexity
PASSWORD_CHECK_PWN: false: Check HaveIBeenPwned to see if a password has been exposed.
SUCCESSFUL_TOKENS_CACHE_SIZE: 20: Cache successful token hashes. API tokens are stored in the DB as pbkdf2 hashes however, this means that there is a potentially significant hashing load when there are multiple API operations. This cache will store the successfully hashed tokens in a LRU cache as a balance between performance and security.
DISABLE_QUERY_AUTH_TOKEN: false: Reject API tokens sent in URL query string (Accept Header-based API tokens only).

Camo (`camo`)

ENABLED: false: Enable media proxy, we support images only at the moment.
SERVER_URL: <empty>: URL of camo server, it is required if camo is enabled.
HMAC_KEY: <empty>: Provide the HMAC key for encoding URLs, it is required if camo is enabled.
ALLWAYS: false: Set to true to use camo for both HTTP and HTTPS content, otherwise only non-HTTPS URLs are proxied

OpenID (`openid`)

ENABLE_OPENID_SIGNIN: true: Allow authentication in via OpenID.
ENABLE_OPENID_SIGNUP: ! DISABLE_REGISTRATION: Allow registering via OpenID.
WHITELISTED_URIS: <empty>: If non-empty, list of POSIX regex patterns matching OpenID URI’s to permit.
BLACKLISTED_URIS: <empty>: If non-empty, list of POSIX regex patterns matching OpenID URI’s to block.

OAuth2 Client (`oauth2_client`)

REGISTER_EMAIL_CONFIRM: [service] REGISTER_EMAIL_CONFIRM: Set this to enable or disable email confirmation of OAuth2 auto-registration. (Overwrites the REGISTER_EMAIL_CONFIRM setting of the [service] section)
OPENID_CONNECT_SCOPES: <empty>: List of additional openid connect scopes. (openid is implicitly added)
ENABLE_AUTO_REGISTRATION: false: Automatically create user accounts for new oauth2 users.
USERNAME: nickname: The source of the username for new oauth2 accounts:
- userid - use the userid / sub attribute
- nickname - use the nickname attribute
- email - use the username part of the email attribute
- Note: nickname and email options will normalize input strings using the following criteria:
  - diacritics are removed
  - the characters in the set ['´\x60] are removed
  - the characters in the set [\s~+] are replaced with -
UPDATE_AVATAR: false: Update avatar if available from oauth2 provider. Update will be performed on each login.
ACCOUNT_LINKING: login: How to handle if an account / email already exists:
- disabled - show an error
- login - show an account linking login
- auto - automatically link with the account (Please be aware that this will grant access to an existing account just because the same username or email is provided. You must make sure that this does not cause issues with your authentication providers.)

Service (`service`)

ACTIVE_CODE_LIVE_MINUTES: 180: Time limit (min) to confirm account/email registration.
RESET_PASSWD_CODE_LIVE_MINUTES: 180: Time limit (min) to confirm forgot password reset process.
REGISTER_EMAIL_CONFIRM: false: Enable this to ask for mail confirmation of registration. Requires Mailer to be enabled.
REGISTER_MANUAL_CONFIRM: false: Enable this to manually confirm new registrations. Requires REGISTER_EMAIL_CONFIRM to be disabled.
DISABLE_REGISTRATION: false: Disable registration, after which only admin can create accounts for users.
REQUIRE_EXTERNAL_REGISTRATION_PASSWORD: false: Enable this to force externally created accounts (via GitHub, OpenID Connect, etc) to create a password. Warning: enabling this will decrease security, so you should only enable it if you know what you’re doing.
REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW: false: Enable this to force users to log in to view any page or to use API.
ENABLE_NOTIFY_MAIL: false: Enable this to send e-mail to watchers of a repository when something happens, like creating issues. Requires Mailer to be enabled.
ENABLE_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION: true: Disable this to disallow authentication using HTTP BASIC and the user’s password. Please note if you disable this you will not be able to access the tokens API endpoints using a password. Further, this only disables BASIC authentication using the password - not tokens or OAuth Basic.
ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION: false: Enable this to allow reverse proxy authentication for web requests
ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_API: false: Enable this to allow reverse proxy authentication for API requests, the reverse proxy is responsible for ensuring that no CSRF is possible.
ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_AUTO_REGISTRATION: false: Enable this to allow auto-registration for reverse authentication.
ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_EMAIL: false: Enable this to allow to auto-registration with a provided email rather than a generated email.
ENABLE_REVERSE_PROXY_FULL_NAME: false: Enable this to allow to auto-registration with a provided full name for the user.
ENABLE_CAPTCHA: false: Enable this to use captcha validation for registration.
REQUIRE_CAPTCHA_FOR_LOGIN: false: Enable this to require captcha validation for login. You also must enable ENABLE_CAPTCHA.
REQUIRE_EXTERNAL_REGISTRATION_CAPTCHA: false: Enable this to force captcha validation even for External Accounts (i.e. GitHub, OpenID Connect, etc). You also must enable ENABLE_CAPTCHA.
CAPTCHA_TYPE: image: [image, recaptcha, hcaptcha, mcaptcha, cfturnstile]
RECAPTCHA_SECRET: "": Go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin to get a secret for recaptcha.
RECAPTCHA_SITEKEY: "": Go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin to get a sitekey for recaptcha.
RECAPTCHA_URL: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/: Set the recaptcha url - allows the use of recaptcha net.
HCAPTCHA_SECRET: "": Sign up at https://www.hcaptcha.com/ to get a secret for hcaptcha.
HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY: "": Sign up at https://www.hcaptcha.com/ to get a sitekey for hcaptcha.
MCAPTCHA_SECRET: "": Go to your mCaptcha instance to get a secret for mCaptcha.
MCAPTCHA_SITEKEY: "": Go to your mCaptcha instance to get a sitekey for mCaptcha.
MCAPTCHA_URL https://demo.mcaptcha.org/: Set the mCaptcha URL.
CF_TURNSTILE_SECRET "": Go to https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/turnstile to get a secret for cloudflare turnstile.
CF_TURNSTILE_SITEKEY "": Go to https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/turnstile to get a sitekey for cloudflare turnstile.
DEFAULT_KEEP_EMAIL_PRIVATE: false: By default set users to keep their email address private.
DEFAULT_ALLOW_CREATE_ORGANIZATION: true: Allow new users to create organizations by default.
DEFAULT_USER_IS_RESTRICTED: false: Give new users restricted permissions by default
DEFAULT_ENABLE_DEPENDENCIES: true: Enable this to have dependencies enabled by default.
USER_LOCATION_MAP_URL: "": A map service URL to show user’s location on a map. The location will be appended to the URL as escaped query parameter. In Forgejo, OpenStreetMap is used by default.
ALLOW_CROSS_REPOSITORY_DEPENDENCIES : true Enable this to allow dependencies on issues from any repository where the user is granted access.
ENABLE_USER_HEATMAP: true: Enable this to display the heatmap on users profiles.
ENABLE_TIMETRACKING: true: Enable Timetracking feature.
DEFAULT_ENABLE_TIMETRACKING: true: Allow repositories to use timetracking by default.
DEFAULT_ALLOW_ONLY_CONTRIBUTORS_TO_TRACK_TIME: true: Only allow users with write permissions to track time.
EMAIL_DOMAIN_ALLOWLIST: <empty>: If non-empty, comma separated list of domain names that can only be used to register on this instance, wildcard is supported.
EMAIL_DOMAIN_BLOCKLIST: <empty>: If non-empty, comma separated list of domain names that cannot be used to register on this instance, wildcard is supported.
SHOW_REGISTRATION_BUTTON: ! DISABLE_REGISTRATION: Show Registration Button
SHOW_MILESTONES_DASHBOARD_PAGE: true Enable this to show the milestones dashboard page - a view of all the user’s milestones
AUTO_WATCH_NEW_REPOS: true: Enable this to let all organisation users watch new repos when they are created
AUTO_WATCH_ON_CHANGES: false: Enable this to make users watch a repository after their first commit to it
DEFAULT_USER_VISIBILITY: public: Set default visibility mode for users, either “public”, “limited” or “private”.
ALLOWED_USER_VISIBILITY_MODES: public,limited,private: Set which visibility modes a user can have
DEFAULT_ORG_VISIBILITY: public: Set default visibility mode for organisations, either “public”, “limited” or “private”.
DEFAULT_ORG_MEMBER_VISIBLE: false True will make the membership of the users visible when added to the organisation.
ALLOW_ONLY_INTERNAL_REGISTRATION: false Set to true to force registration only via Forgejo.
ALLOW_ONLY_EXTERNAL_REGISTRATION: false Set to true to force registration only using third-party services.
NO_REPLY_ADDRESS: noreply.DOMAIN Value for the domain part of the user’s email address in the Git log if user has set KeepEmailPrivate to true. DOMAIN resolves to the value in server.DOMAIN. The user’s email will be replaced with a concatenation of the user name in lower case, ”@” and NO_REPLY_ADDRESS.
USER_DELETE_WITH_COMMENTS_MAX_TIME: 0 Minimum amount of time a user must exist before comments are kept when the user is deleted.
VALID_SITE_URL_SCHEMES: http, https: Valid site url schemes for user profiles

Service - Explore (`service.explore`)

REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW: false: Only allow signed in users to view the explore pages.
DISABLE_USERS_PAGE: false: Disable the users explore page.

SSH Minimum Key Sizes (`ssh.minimum_key_sizes`)

Define allowed algorithms and their minimum key length (use -1 to disable a type):

ED25519: 256
ECDSA: 256
RSA: 3071: We set 3071 here because an otherwise valid 3072 RSA key can be reported as 3071 length.
DSA: -1: DSA is now disabled by default. Set to 1024 to re-enable but ensure you may need to reconfigure your SSHD provider

Webhook (`webhook`)

QUEUE_LENGTH: 1000: Hook task queue length. Use caution when editing this value.
DELIVER_TIMEOUT: 5: Delivery timeout (sec) for shooting webhooks.
ALLOWED_HOST_LIST: external: Webhook can only call allowed hosts for security reasons. Comma separated list.
- Built-in networks:
  - loopback: 127.0.0.0/8 for IPv4 and ::1/128 for IPv6, localhost is included.
  - private: RFC 1918 (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16) and RFC 4193 (FC00::/7). Also called LAN/Intranet.
  - external: A valid non-private unicast IP, you can access all hosts on public internet.
  - *: All hosts are allowed.
- CIDR list: 1.2.3.0/8 for IPv4 and 2001:db8::/32 for IPv6
- Wildcard hosts: *.example.com, 192.168.100.*
SKIP_TLS_VERIFY: false: Allow insecure certification.
PAGING_NUM: 10: Number of webhook history events that are shown in one page.
PROXY_URL: <empty>: Proxy server URL, support http://, https//, socks5://, blank will follow environment http_proxy/https_proxy. If not given, will use global proxy setting.
PROXY_HOSTS: <empty>`: Comma separated list of host names requiring proxy. Glob patterns (*) are accepted; use ** to match all hosts. If not given, will use global proxy setting.

Mailer (`mailer`)

ENABLED: false: Enable to use a mail service.
PROTOCOL: <empty>: Mail server protocol. One of “smtp”, “smtps”, “smtp+starttls”, “smtp+unix”, “sendmail”, “dummy”.
- SMTP family, if your provider does not explicitly say which protocol it uses but does provide a port, you can set SMTP_PORT instead and this will be inferred.
- sendmail Use the operating system’s sendmail command instead of SMTP. This is common on Linux systems.
- dummy Send email messages to the log as a testing phase.
- Note that enabling sendmail will ignore all other mailer settings except ENABLED, FROM, SUBJECT_PREFIX and SENDMAIL_PATH.
- Enabling dummy will ignore all settings except ENABLED, SUBJECT_PREFIX and FROM.
SMTP_ADDR: <empty>: Mail server address. e.g. smtp.gmail.com. For smtp+unix, this should be a path to a unix socket instead. Before 1.18, this was combined with SMTP_PORT under the name HOST.
SMTP_PORT: <empty>: Mail server port. If no protocol is specified, it will be inferred by this setting. Common ports are listed below. Before 1.18, this was combined with SMTP_ADDR under the name HOST.
- 25: insecure SMTP
- 465: SMTP Secure
- 587: StartTLS
USE_CLIENT_CERT: false: Use client certificate for TLS/SSL.
CLIENT_CERT_FILE: custom/mailer/cert.pem: Client certificate file.
CLIENT_KEY_FILE: custom/mailer/key.pem: Client key file.
FORCE_TRUST_SERVER_CERT: false: If set to true, completely ignores server certificate validation errors. This option is unsafe. Consider adding the certificate to the system trust store instead.
USER: <empty>: Username of mailing user (usually the sender’s e-mail address).
PASSWD: <empty>: Password of mailing user. Use `your password` for quoting if you use special characters in the password.
- Please note: authentication is only supported when the SMTP server communication is encrypted with TLS (this can be via STARTTLS) or SMTP host is localhost.
ENABLE_HELO: true: Enable HELO operation.
HELO_HOSTNAME: (retrieved from system): HELO hostname.
FROM: <empty>: Mail from address, RFC 5322. This can be just an email address, or the “Name” <email@example.com> format.
ENVELOPE_FROM: <empty>: Address set as the From address on the SMTP mail envelope. Set to <> to send an empty address.
SUBJECT_PREFIX: <empty>: Prefix to be placed before e-mail subject lines.
SENDMAIL_PATH: sendmail: The location of sendmail on the operating system (can be command or full path).
SENDMAIL_ARGS: <empty>: Specify any extra sendmail arguments. (NOTE: you should be aware that email addresses can look like options - if your sendmail command takes options you must set the option terminator --)
SENDMAIL_TIMEOUT: 5m: default timeout for sending email through sendmail
SENDMAIL_CONVERT_CRLF: true: Most versions of sendmail prefer LF line endings rather than CRLF line endings. Set this to false if your version of sendmail requires CRLF line endings.
SEND_BUFFER_LEN: 100: Buffer length of mailing queue. DEPRECATED use LENGTH in [queue.mailer]
SEND_AS_PLAIN_TEXT: false: Send mails only in plain text, without HTML alternative.

Incoming Email (`email.incoming`)

ENABLED: false: Enable handling of incoming emails.
REPLY_TO_ADDRESS: <empty>: The email address including the %{token} placeholder that will be replaced per user/action. Example: incoming+%{token}@example.com. The placeholder must appear in the user part of the address (before the @).
HOST: <empty>: IMAP server host.
PORT: <empty>: IMAP server port.
USERNAME: <empty>: Username of the receiving account.
PASSWORD: <empty>: Password of the receiving account.
USE_TLS: false: Whether the IMAP server uses TLS.
SKIP_TLS_VERIFY: false: If set to true, completely ignores server certificate validation errors. This option is unsafe.
MAILBOX: INBOX: The mailbox name where incoming mail will end up.
DELETE_HANDLED_MESSAGE: true: Whether handled messages should be deleted from the mailbox.
MAXIMUM_MESSAGE_SIZE: 10485760: Maximum size of a message to handle. Bigger messages are ignored. Set to 0 to allow every size.

Cache (`cache`)

ADAPTER: memory: Cache engine adapter, either memory, redis, redis-cluster, twoqueue or memcache. (twoqueue represents a size limited LRU cache.)
- Refer to the Recommended Settings for more information about cache adapters.
INTERVAL: 60: Garbage Collection interval (sec), for memory and twoqueue cache only.
HOST: <empty>: Connection string for redis, redis-cluster and memcache. For twoqueue sets configuration for the queue.
- Redis: redis://:macaron@127.0.0.1:6379/0?pool_size=100&idle_timeout=180s
- Redis-cluster redis+cluster://:macaron@127.0.0.1:6379/0?pool_size=100&idle_timeout=180s
- Redis-sentinel redis+sentinel://127.0.0.1:26379/0?mastername=mymaster
- Memcache: 127.0.0.1:9090;127.0.0.1:9091
- TwoQueue LRU cache: {"size":50000,"recent_ratio":0.25,"ghost_ratio":0.5} or 50000 representing the maximum number of objects stored in the cache.
ITEM_TTL: 16h: Time to keep items in cache if not used, Setting it to -1 disables caching.

Cache - LastCommitCache settings (`cache.last_commit`)

ITEM_TTL: 8760h: Time to keep items in cache if not used, Setting it to -1 disables caching.
COMMITS_COUNT: 1000: Only enable the cache when repository’s commits count great than.

Session (`session`)

PROVIDER: memory: Session engine provider [memory, file, redis, redis-cluster, db, mysql, couchbase, memcache, postgres]. Setting db will reuse the configuration in [database]
PROVIDER_CONFIG: data/sessions: For file, the root path; for db, empty (database config will be used); for others, the connection string. Relative paths will be made absolute against AppWorkPath.
COOKIE_SECURE:empty: true or false. Enable this to force using HTTPS for all session access. If not set, it defaults to true if the ROOT_URL is an HTTPS URL.
COOKIE_NAME: i_like_gitea: The name of the cookie used for the session ID.
GC_INTERVAL_TIME: 86400: GC interval in seconds.
SESSION_LIFE_TIME: 86400: Session life time in seconds, default is 86400 (1 day)
DOMAIN: <empty>: Sets the cookie Domain
SAME_SITE: lax [strict, lax, none]: Set the SameSite setting for the cookie. Please note, that setting this to strict can break the login via an external OAuth2 provider - this is a known bug.

Picture (`picture`)

GRAVATAR_SOURCE: gravatar: Can be gravatar, duoshuo or anything like http://cn.gravatar.com/avatar/.
DISABLE_GRAVATAR: false: Enable this to use local avatars only. DEPRECATED [v1.18+] moved to database. Use admin panel to configure.
ENABLE_FEDERATED_AVATAR: false: Enable support for federated avatars (see
AVATAR_STORAGE_TYPE: default: Storage type as explained in detail in the storage documentation.
AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH: data/avatars: Path to store user avatar image files.
AVATAR_MAX_WIDTH: 4096: Maximum avatar image width in pixels.
AVATAR_MAX_HEIGHT: 4096: Maximum avatar image height in pixels.
AVATAR_MAX_FILE_SIZE: 1048576 (1MiB): Maximum avatar image file size in bytes.
AVATAR_MAX_ORIGIN_SIZE: 262144 (256KiB): If the uploaded file is not larger than this byte size, the image will be used as is, without resizing/converting.
AVATAR_RENDERED_SIZE_FACTOR: 2: The multiplication factor for rendered avatar images. Larger values result in finer rendering on HiDPI devices.
REPOSITORY_AVATAR_STORAGE_TYPE: default: Storage type defined as explained in detail in the storage documentation.
REPOSITORY_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH: data/repo-avatars: Path to store repository avatar image files.
REPOSITORY_AVATAR_FALLBACK: none: How Forgejo deals with missing repository avatars
- none = no avatar will be displayed
- random = random avatar will be generated
- image = default image will be used (which is set in REPOSITORY_AVATAR_FALLBACK_IMAGE)
REPOSITORY_AVATAR_FALLBACK_IMAGE: /img/repo_default.png: Image used as default repository avatar (if REPOSITORY_AVATAR_FALLBACK is set to image and none was uploaded)

Project (`project`)

Default templates for project boards:

PROJECT_BOARD_BASIC_KANBAN_TYPE: To Do, In Progress, Done
PROJECT_BOARD_BUG_TRIAGE_TYPE: Needs Triage, High Priority, Low Priority, Closed

Issue and pull request attachments (`attachment`)

ENABLED: true: Whether issue and pull request attachments are enabled.
ALLOWED_TYPES: .cpuprofile,.csv,.dmp,.docx,.fodg,.fodp,.fods,.fodt,.gif,.gz,.jpeg,.jpg,.json,.jsonc,.log,.md,.mov,.mp4,.odf,.odg,.odp,.ods,.odt,.patch,.pdf,.png,.pptx,.svg,.tgz,.txt,.webm,.webp,.xls,.xlsx,.zip: Comma-separated list of allowed file extensions (.zip), mime types (text/plain) or wildcard type (image/*, audio/*, video/*). Empty value or */* allows all types.
MAX_SIZE: 2048: Maximum size (MB).
MAX_FILES: 5: Maximum number of attachments that can be uploaded at once.

Additional settings can be included in this section to specify where the data is stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Log (`log`)

When configuring logging, also consult the detailed logging documentation.

ROOT_PATH: <empty>: Root path for log files.
MODE: console: Logging mode. For multiple modes, use a comma to separate values. You can configure each mode in per mode log subsections [log.writer-mode-name].
LEVEL: Info: General log level. [Trace, Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Critical, Fatal, None]
STACKTRACE_LEVEL: None: Default log level at which to log create stack traces (rarely useful, do not set it). [Trace, Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Critical, Fatal, None]
ENABLE_SSH_LOG: false: save ssh log to log file
logger.access.MODE: <empty>: The “access” logger
logger.router.MODE: ,: The “router” logger, a single comma means it will use the default MODE above
logger.xorm.MODE: ,: The “xorm” logger

Access Log (`log`)

ACCESS_LOG_TEMPLATE: {{.Ctx.RemoteHost}} - {{.Identity}} {{.Start.Format "[02/Jan/2006:15:04:05 -0700]" }} "{{.Ctx.Req.Method}} {{.Ctx.Req.URL.RequestURI}} {{.Ctx.Req.Proto}}" {{.ResponseWriter.Status}} {{.ResponseWriter.Size}} "{{.Ctx.Req.Referer}}" "{{.Ctx.Req.UserAgent}}": Sets the template used to create the access log.
- The following variables are available:
- Ctx: the context.Context of the request.
- Identity: the SignedUserName or "-" if not logged in.
- Start: the start time of the request.
- ResponseWriter: the responseWriter from the request.
- RequestID: the value matching REQUEST_ID_HEADERS（default: -, if not matched）.
- You must be very careful to ensure that this template does not throw errors or panics as this template runs outside the panic/recovery script.
REQUEST_ID_HEADERS: <empty>: You can configure multiple values that are split by comma here. It will match in the order of configuration, and the first match will be finally printed in the access log.
- e.g.
- In the Request Header: X-Request-ID: test-id-123
- Configuration in app.ini: REQUEST_ID_HEADERS = X-Request-ID
- Print in log: 127.0.0.1:58384 - - [14/Feb/2023:16:33:51 +0800] “test-id-123” …

Log subsections (`log.<writer-mode-name>`)

MODE: name: Sets the mode of this log writer - Defaults to the provided subsection name. This allows you to have two different file loggers at different levels.
LEVEL: log.LEVEL: Sets the log-level of this writer. Defaults to the LEVEL set in the global [log] section.
STACKTRACE_LEVEL: log.STACKTRACE_LEVEL: Sets the log level at which to log stack traces.
EXPRESSION: "": A regular expression to match either the function name, file or message. Defaults to empty. Only log messages that match the expression will be saved in the logger.
FLAGS: stdflags: A comma separated string representing the log flags. Defaults to stdflags which represents the prefix: 2009/01/23 01:23:23 ...a/b/c/d.go:23:runtime.Caller() [I]: message. none means don’t prefix log lines. See the FLAGS section of the logging documentation for more information.
PREFIX: "": An additional prefix for every log line in this logger. Defaults to empty.
COLORIZE: false: Whether to colorize the log lines

Console log mode (`log.console`, or `MODE=console`)

The defaults of the console change if Forgejo detects that stdout and/or stderr are connected to systemd-journald (which will happen automatically when Forgejo is running under systemd). See the journald section in the logging documentation.

For the console logger COLORIZE will default to true if not on windows or the terminal is determined to be able to color.
STDERR: false (journald: true): Use Stderr instead of Stdout.
FLAGS: stdflags (journald: journaldflags): Instead of colour or text annotations, machine-readable prefixes are used that can be parsed by sytemd-journald.

File log mode (`log.file`, or `MODE=file`)

FILE_NAME: Set the file name for this logger. Defaults to forgejo.log (exception: access log defaults to access.log). If relative will be relative to the ROOT_PATH
LOG_ROTATE: true: Rotate the log files.
MAX_SIZE_SHIFT: 28: Maximum size shift of a single file, 28 represents 256Mb.
DAILY_ROTATE: true: Rotate logs daily.
MAX_DAYS: 7: Delete the log file after n days
COMPRESS: true: Compress old log files by default with gzip
COMPRESSION_LEVEL: -1: Compression level

Conn log mode (`log.conn`, or `MODE=conn`)

RECONNECT_ON_MSG: false: Reconnect host for every single message.
RECONNECT: false: Try to reconnect when connection is lost.
PROTOCOL: tcp: Set the protocol, either “tcp”, “unix” or “udp”.
ADDR: :7020: Sets the address to connect to.

Cron (`cron`)

ENABLED: false: Enable to run all cron tasks periodically with default settings.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run cron tasks at application start-up.
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE accept formats
- Full crontab specs, e.g. * * * * * ?
- Descriptors, e.g. @midnight, @every 1h30m …
- See more: cron documentation

Basic cron tasks - enabled by default

Cron - Cleanup old repository archives (`cron.archive_cleanup`)

ENABLED: true: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: true: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
SCHEDULE: @midnight: Cron syntax for scheduling repository archive cleanup, e.g. @every 1h.
OLDER_THAN: 24h: Archives created more than OLDER_THAN ago are subject to deletion, e.g. 12h.

Cron - Update Mirrors (`cron.update_mirrors`)

SCHEDULE: @every 10m: Cron syntax for scheduling update mirrors, e.g. @every 3h.
PULL_LIMIT: 50: Limit the number of mirrors added to the queue to this number (negative values mean no limit, 0 will result in no mirrors being queued effectively disabling pull mirror updating).
PUSH_LIMIT: 50: Limit the number of mirrors added to the queue to this number (negative values mean no limit, 0 will result in no mirrors being queued effectively disabling push mirror updating).

Cron - Repository Health Check (`cron.repo_health_check`)

SCHEDULE: @midnight: Cron syntax for scheduling repository health check.
TIMEOUT: 60s: Time duration syntax for health check execution timeout.
ARGS: <empty>: Arguments for command git fsck, e.g. --unreachable --tags. See more on http://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck

Cron - Repository Statistics Check (`cron.check_repo_stats`)

RUN_AT_START: true: Run repository statistics check at start time.
SCHEDULE: @midnight: Cron syntax for scheduling repository statistics check.

Cron - Cleanup hook_task Table (`cron.cleanup_hook_task_table`)

ENABLED: true: Enable cleanup hook_task job.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run cleanup hook_task at start time (if ENABLED).
SCHEDULE: @midnight: Cron syntax for cleaning hook_task table.
CLEANUP_TYPE OlderThan OlderThan or PerWebhook Method to cleanup hook_task, either by age (i.e. how long ago hook_task record was delivered) or by the number to keep per webhook (i.e. keep most recent x deliveries per webhook).
OLDER_THAN: 168h: If CLEANUP_TYPE is set to OlderThan, then any delivered hook_task records older than this expression will be deleted.
NUMBER_TO_KEEP: 10: If CLEANUP_TYPE is set to PerWebhook, this is number of hook_task records to keep for a webhook (i.e. keep the most recent x deliveries).

Cron - Cleanup expired packages (`cron.cleanup_packages`)

ENABLED: true: Enable cleanup expired packages job.
RUN_AT_START: true: Run job at start time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Notify every time this job runs.
SCHEDULE: @midnight: Cron syntax for the job.
OLDER_THAN: 24h: Unreferenced package data created more than OLDER_THAN ago is subject to deletion.

Cron - Update Migration Poster ID (`cron.update_migration_poster_id`)

SCHEDULE: @midnight : Interval as a duration between each synchronization, it will always attempt synchronization when the instance starts.

Cron - Sync External Users (`cron.sync_external_users`)

SCHEDULE: @midnight : Interval as a duration between each synchronization, it will always attempt synchronization when the instance starts.
UPDATE_EXISTING: true: Create new users, update existing user data and disable users that are not in external source anymore (default) or only create new users if UPDATE_EXISTING is set to false.

Cron - Cleanup Expired Actions Assets (`cron.cleanup_actions`)

ENABLED: true: Enable cleanup expired actions assets job.
RUN_AT_START: true: Run job at start time (if ENABLED).
SCHEDULE: @midnight : Cron syntax for the job.

Extended cron tasks (not enabled by default)

Cron - Garbage collect all repositories (`cron.git_gc_repos`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
SCHEDULE: @every 72h: Cron syntax for scheduling repository archive cleanup, e.g. @every 1h.
TIMEOUT: 60s: Time duration syntax for garbage collection execution timeout.
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
ARGS: <empty>: Arguments for command git gc, e.g. --aggressive --auto. The default value is same with [git] -> GC_ARGS

Cron - Update the ‘.ssh/authorized_keys’ file with Forgejo SSH keys (`cron.resync_all_sshkeys`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 72h: Cron syntax for scheduling ‘.ssh/authorized_keys’ synchronization, e.g. @every 1h.

Cron - Resynchronize pre-receive, update and post-receive hooks of all repositories (`cron.resync_all_hooks`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 72h: Cron syntax for scheduling Git hooks synchronization for all repositories, e.g. @every 1h.

Cron - Reinitialize all missing Git repositories for which records exist (`cron.reinit_missing_repos`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 72h: Cron syntax for scheduling initialization of repositories missing their Git files, e.g. @every 1h.

Cron - Delete all repositories missing their Git files (`cron.delete_missing_repos`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 72h: Cron syntax for scheduling deletion of repositories missing their Git files, e.g. @every 1h.

Cron - Delete generated repository avatars (`cron.delete_generated_repository_avatars`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 72h: Cron syntax for scheduling generated repository avatars cleanup, e.g. @every 1h.

Cron - Delete all old actions from database (`cron.delete_old_actions`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 168h: Cron syntax to set how often to check.
OLDER_THAN: 8760h: any action older than this expression will be deleted from database, suggest using 8760h (1 year) because that’s the max length of heatmap.

Cron - Check for new Forgejo versions (`cron.update_checker`)

ENABLED: true: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
ENABLE_SUCCESS_NOTICE: true: Set to false to switch off success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 168h: Cron syntax for scheduling a work, e.g. @every 168h.
HTTP_ENDPOINT: https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/version.json: [DEPRECATED] The endpoint that Forgejo will check for newer versions. Not in use by the project. Might be dropped in a future version.
DOMAIN_ENDPOINT: release.forgejo.org: The domain with a TXT record that, if specified, Forgejo will query for newer versions. This is preferred over HTTP_ENDPOINT.

Cron - Delete all old system notices from database (`cron.delete_old_system_notices`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NO_SUCCESS_NOTICE: false: Set to true to switch off success notices.
SCHEDULE: @every 168h: Cron syntax to set how often to check.
OLDER_THAN: 8760h: any system notice older than this expression will be deleted from database.

Cron - Garbage collect LFS pointers in repositories (`cron.gc_lfs`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START: false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
SCHEDULE: @every 24h: Cron syntax to set how often to check.
OLDER_THAN: 168h: Only attempt to garbage collect LFSMetaObjects older than this (default 7 days)
LAST_UPDATED_MORE_THAN_AGO: 72h: Only attempt to garbage collect LFSMetaObjects that have not been attempted to be garbage collected for this long (default 3 days)
NUMBER_TO_CHECK_PER_REPO: 100: Minimum number of stale LFSMetaObjects to check per repo. Set to 0 to always check all.
PROPORTION_TO_CHECK_PER_REPO: 0.6: Check at least this proportion of LFSMetaObjects per repo. (This may cause all stale LFSMetaObjects to be checked.)

Cron - Delete inactive account (`cron.delete_inactive_accounts`)

ENABLED: false: Enable service.
RUN_AT_START false: Run tasks at start up time (if ENABLED).
NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS: false: Set to true to switch on success notices.
SCHEDULE: @annually: Cron syntax to set how often to check.
OLDER_THAN: 168h: Only delete inactive accounts older than this.

Git (`git`)

PATH: "": The path of Git executable. If empty, Forgejo searches through the PATH environment.
HOME_PATH: %(APP_DATA_PATH)s/home: The HOME directory for Git. This directory will be used to contain the .gitconfig and possible .gnupg directories that Forgejo’s git calls will use. If you can confirm Forgejo is the only application running in this environment, you can set it to the normal home directory for Forgejo user.
DISABLE_DIFF_HIGHLIGHT: false: Disables highlight of added and removed changes.
MAX_GIT_DIFF_LINES: 1000: Max number of lines allowed of a single file in diff view.
MAX_GIT_DIFF_LINE_CHARACTERS: 5000: Max character count per line highlighted in diff view.
MAX_GIT_DIFF_FILES: 100: Max number of files shown in diff view.
COMMITS_RANGE_SIZE: 50: Set the default commits range size
BRANCHES_RANGE_SIZE: 20: Set the default branches range size
GC_ARGS: <empty>: Arguments for command git gc, e.g. --aggressive --auto. See more on http://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc/
ENABLE_AUTO_GIT_WIRE_PROTOCOL: true: If use Git wire protocol version 2 when Git version >= 2.18, default is true, set to false when you always want Git wire protocol version 1. To enable this for Git over SSH when using a OpenSSH server, add AcceptEnv GIT_PROTOCOL to your sshd_config file.
PULL_REQUEST_PUSH_MESSAGE: true: Respond to pushes to a non-default branch with a URL for creating a Pull Request (if the repository has them enabled)
VERBOSE_PUSH: true: Print status information about pushes as they are being processed.
VERBOSE_PUSH_DELAY: 5s: Only print verbose information if push takes longer than this delay.
LARGE_OBJECT_THRESHOLD: 1048576: (Go-Git only), don’t cache objects greater than this in memory. (Set to 0 to disable.)
DISABLE_CORE_PROTECT_NTFS: false Set to true to forcibly set core.protectNTFS to false.
DISABLE_PARTIAL_CLONE: false Disable the usage of using partial clones for git.

Git - Timeout settings (`git.timeout`)

DEFAULT: 360: Git operations default timeout seconds.
MIGRATE: 600: Migrate external repositories timeout seconds.
MIRROR: 300: Mirror external repositories timeout seconds.
CLONE: 300: Git clone from internal repositories timeout seconds.
PULL: 300: Git pull from internal repositories timeout seconds.
GC: 60: Git repository GC timeout seconds.
GREP: 2: Git repository grep (search) timeout seconds.

Git - Config options (`git.config`)

The key/value pairs in this section will be used as git config. This section only does “set” config, a removed config key from this section won’t be removed from git config automatically. The format is some.configKey = value.

diff.algorithm: histogram
core.logAllRefUpdates: true
gc.reflogExpire: 90

Metrics (`metrics`)

ENABLED: false: Enables /metrics endpoint for prometheus.
ENABLED_ISSUE_BY_LABEL: false: Enable issue by label metrics with format gitea_issues_by_label{label="bug"} 2.
ENABLED_ISSUE_BY_REPOSITORY: false: Enable issue by repository metrics with format gitea_issues_by_repository{repository="org/repo"} 5.
TOKEN: <empty>: You need to specify the token, if you want to include in the authorization the metrics . The same token need to be used in prometheus parameters bearer_token or bearer_token_file.

API (`api`)

ENABLE_SWAGGER: true: Enables the API documentation endpoints (/api/swagger, /api/v1/swagger, …). True or false.
MAX_RESPONSE_ITEMS: 50: Max number of items in a page.
DEFAULT_PAGING_NUM: 30: Default paging number of API.
DEFAULT_GIT_TREES_PER_PAGE: 1000: Default and maximum number of items per page for Git trees API.
DEFAULT_MAX_BLOB_SIZE: 10485760 (10MiB): Default max size of a blob that can be returned by the blobs API.

OAuth2 (`oauth2`)

ENABLED: true: Enables OAuth2 provider.
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME: 3600: Lifetime of an OAuth2 access token in seconds
REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME: 730: Lifetime of an OAuth2 refresh token in hours
INVALIDATE_REFRESH_TOKENS: false: Check if refresh token has already been used
JWT_SIGNING_ALGORITHM: RS256: Algorithm used to sign OAuth2 tokens. Valid values: [HS256, HS384, HS512, RS256, RS384, RS512, ES256, ES384, ES512]
JWT_SECRET: <empty>: OAuth2 authentication secret for access and refresh tokens, change this to a unique string. This setting is only needed if JWT_SIGNING_ALGORITHM is set to HS256, HS384 or HS512.
JWT_SECRET_URI: <empty>: Instead of defining JWT_SECRET in the configuration, this configuration option can be used to give Forgejo a path to a file that contains the secret (example value: file:/etc/forgejo/oauth2_jwt_secret)
JWT_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE: jwt/private.pem: Private key file path used to sign OAuth2 tokens. The path is relative to APP_DATA_PATH. This setting is only needed if JWT_SIGNING_ALGORITHM is set to RS256, RS384, RS512, ES256, ES384 or ES512. The file must contain a RSA or ECDSA private key in the PKCS8 format. If no key exists a 4096 bit key will be created for you.
MAX_TOKEN_LENGTH: 32767: Maximum length of token/cookie to accept from OAuth2 provider
DEFAULT_APPLICATIONS: git-credential-oauth, git-credential-manager: Pre-register OAuth applications for some services on startup.

i18n (`i18n`)

LANGS: en-US,zh-CN,zh-HK,zh-TW,de-DE,fr-FR,nl-NL,lv-LV,ru-RU,uk-UA,ja-JP,es-ES,pt-BR,pt-PT,pl-PL,bg,it-IT,fi-FI,fil,eo,tr-TR,cs-CZ,sl,sv-SE,ko-KR,el-GR,fa-IR,hu-HU,id-ID: List of locales shown in language selector. The first locale will be used as the default if user browser’s language doesn’t match any locale in the list.
NAMES: English,简体中文,繁體中文（香港）,繁體中文（台灣）,Deutsch,Français,Nederlands,Latviešu,Русский,Українська,日本語,Español,Português do Brasil,Português de Portugal,Polski,Български,Italiano,Suomi,Filipino,Esperanto,Türkçe,Čeština,Slovenščina,Svenska,한국어,Ελληνικά,فارسی,Magyar nyelv,Bahasa Indonesia: Visible names corresponding to the locales

Markup (`markup`)

MERMAID_MAX_SOURCE_CHARACTERS: 5000: Set the maximum size of a Mermaid source. (Set to -1 to disable)
FILEPREVIEW_MAX_LINES: 50: Set the maximum number of lines allowed for a filepreview. (Set to -1 to disable limits; set to 0 to disable the feature)

Forgejo can support Markup using external tools. The example below will add a markup named asciidoc.

[markup.asciidoc]
ENABLED = true
NEED_POSTPROCESS = true
FILE_EXTENSIONS = .adoc,.asciidoc
RENDER_COMMAND = "asciidoctor --embedded --safe-mode=secure --out-file=- -"
IS_INPUT_FILE = false

ENABLED: false Enable markup support; set to true to enable this renderer.
NEED_POSTPROCESS: true set to true to replace links / sha1 and etc.
FILE_EXTENSIONS: <empty> List of file extensions that should be rendered by an external command. Multiple extensions needs a comma as splitter.
RENDER_COMMAND: External command to render all matching extensions.
IS_INPUT_FILE: false Input is not a standard input but a file param followed RENDER_COMMAND.
RENDER_CONTENT_MODE: sanitized How the content will be rendered.
- sanitized: Sanitize the content and render it inside current page, default to only allow a few HTML tags and attributes. Customized sanitizer rules can be defined in [markup.sanitizer.*].
- no-sanitizer: Disable the sanitizer and render the content inside current page. It’s insecure and may lead to XSS attack if the content contains malicious code.
- iframe: Render the content in a separate standalone page and embed it into current page by iframe. The iframe is in sandbox mode with same-origin disabled, and the JS code are safely isolated from parent page.

Two special environment variables are passed to the render command:

GITEA_PREFIX_SRC, which contains the current URL prefix in the src path tree. To be used as prefix for links.
GITEA_PREFIX_RAW, which contains the current URL prefix in the raw path tree. To be used as prefix for image paths.

If RENDER_CONTENT_MODE is sanitized, Forgejo supports customizing the sanitization policy for rendered HTML. The example below will support KaTeX output from pandoc.

[markup.sanitizer.TeX]
; Pandoc renders TeX segments as <span>s with the "math" class, optionally
; with "inline" or "display" classes depending on context.
ELEMENT = span
ALLOW_ATTR = class
REGEXP = ^\s*((math(\s+|$)|inline(\s+|$)|display(\s+|$)))+
ALLOW_DATA_URI_IMAGES = true

ELEMENT: The element this policy applies to. Must be non-empty.
ALLOW_ATTR: The attribute this policy allows. Must be non-empty.
REGEXP: A regex to match the contents of the attribute against. Must be present but may be empty for unconditional allowlisting of this attribute.
ALLOW_DATA_URI_IMAGES: false Allow data uri images (<img src="data:image/png;base64,..."/>).

Multiple sanitisation rules can be defined by adding unique subsections, e.g. [markup.sanitizer.TeX-2]. To apply a sanitisation rules only for a specify external renderer they must use the renderer name, e.g. [markup.sanitizer.asciidoc.rule-1]. If the rule is defined above the renderer ini section or the name does not match a renderer it is applied to every renderer.

Highlight Mappings (`highlight.mapping`)

file_extension e.g. .toml: language e.g. ini. File extension to language mapping overrides.
Forgejo will highlight files using the linguist-language or gitlab-language attribute from the .gitattributes file if available. If this is not set or the language is unavailable, the file extension will be looked up in this mapping or the filetype using heuristics.

Time (`time`)

DEFAULT_UI_LOCATION: Default location of time on the UI, so that we can display correct user’s time on UI. i.e. Asia/Shanghai

Migrations (`migrations`)

MAX_ATTEMPTS: 3: Max attempts per http/https request on migrations.
RETRY_BACKOFF: 3: Backoff time per http/https request retry (seconds)
ALLOWED_DOMAINS: <empty>: Domains allowlist for migrating repositories, default is blank. It means everything will be allowed. Multiple domains could be separated by commas. Wildcard is supported: github.com, *.github.com.
BLOCKED_DOMAINS: <empty>: Domains blocklist for migrating repositories, 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.
ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS: false: Allow private addresses defined by RFC 1918, RFC 1122, RFC 4632 and RFC 4291. If a domain is allowed by ALLOWED_DOMAINS, this option will be ignored.
SKIP_TLS_VERIFY: false: Allow skip tls verify

Federation (`federation`)

ENABLED: false: Enable/Disable federation capabilities
SHARE_USER_STATISTICS: true: Enable/Disable user statistics for nodeinfo if federation is enabled
MAX_SIZE: 4: Maximum federation request and response size (MB)

WARNING: Changing the settings below can break federation.

ALGORITHMS: rsa-sha256, rsa-sha512, ed25519: HTTP signature algorithms
DIGEST_ALGORITHM: SHA-256: HTTP signature digest algorithm
GET_HEADERS: (request-target), Date: GET headers for federation requests
POST_HEADERS: (request-target), Date, Digest: POST headers for federation requests

Packages (`packages`)

ENABLED: true: Enable/Disable package registry capabilities
CHUNKED_UPLOAD_PATH: tmp/package-upload: Path for chunked uploads. Defaults to APP_DATA_PATH + tmp/package-upload
LIMIT_TOTAL_OWNER_COUNT: -1: Maximum count of package versions a single owner can have (-1 means no limits)
LIMIT_TOTAL_OWNER_SIZE: -1: Maximum size of packages a single owner can use (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_ALPINE: -1: Maximum size of an Alpine upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_CARGO: -1: Maximum size of a Cargo upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_CHEF: -1: Maximum size of a Chef upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_COMPOSER: -1: Maximum size of a Composer upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_CONAN: -1: Maximum size of a Conan upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_CONDA: -1: Maximum size of a Conda upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_CONTAINER: -1: Maximum size of a Container upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_CRAN: -1: Maximum size of a CRAN upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_DEBIAN: -1: Maximum size of a Debian upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_GENERIC: -1: Maximum size of a Generic upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_GO: -1: Maximum size of a Go upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_HELM: -1: Maximum size of a Helm upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_MAVEN: -1: Maximum size of a Maven upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_NPM: -1: Maximum size of a npm upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_NUGET: -1: Maximum size of a NuGet upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_PUB: -1: Maximum size of a Pub upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_PYPI: -1: Maximum size of a PyPI upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_RPM: -1: Maximum size of a RPM upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_RUBYGEMS: -1: Maximum size of a RubyGems upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_SWIFT: -1: Maximum size of a Swift upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)
LIMIT_SIZE_VAGRANT: -1: Maximum size of a Vagrant upload (-1 means no limits, format 1000, 1 MB, 1 GiB)

Additional settings can be included in this section to specify where the data is stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Mirror (`mirror`)

ENABLED: true: Enables the mirror functionality. Set to false to disable all mirrors. Pre-existing mirrors remain valid but won’t be updated; may be converted to regular repo.
DISABLE_NEW_PULL: false: Disable the creation of new pull mirrors. Pre-existing mirrors remain valid. Will be ignored if mirror.ENABLED is false.
DISABLE_NEW_PUSH: false: Disable the creation of new push mirrors. Pre-existing mirrors remain valid. Will be ignored if mirror.ENABLED is false.
DEFAULT_INTERVAL: 8h: Default interval between each check
MIN_INTERVAL: 10m: Minimum interval for checking. (Must be >1m).

LFS (`lfs`)

Settings can be included in this section to specify where the LFS files are stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Repository Avatars (`repo-avatar`)

Settings can be included in this section to specify where the repository avatars are stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Avatars (`avatar`)

Settings can be included in this section to specify where the avatars are stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Actions logs (`storage.actions_log`)

Settings can be included in this section to specify where the actions logs are stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Actions Artifacts (`storage.artifacts`)

Settings can be included in this section to specify where the actions artifacts are stored, as explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Storage (`storage`)

subsystem	default base path	app.ini sections
Attachments	attachments/	[attachment]
LFS	lfs/	[lfs]
Avatars	avatars/	[avatar]
Repository avatars	repo-avatars/	[repo-avatar]
Repository archives	repo-archive/	[repo-archive]
Packages	packages/	[packages]
Actions logs	actions_log/	[storage.actions_log]
Actions Artifacts	actions_artifacts/	[actions.artifacts]

The settings for all these sections are explained in detail in the storage documentation.

Proxy (`proxy`)

PROXY_ENABLED: false: Enable the proxy if true, all requests to external via HTTP will be affected, if false, no proxy will be used even environment http_proxy/https_proxy
PROXY_URL: <empty>: Proxy server URL, support http://, https//, socks5://, blank will follow environment http_proxy/https_proxy
PROXY_HOSTS: <empty>: Comma separated list of host names requiring proxy. Glob patterns (*) are accepted; use ** to match all hosts.

For example, the following configuration can be used to proxy connections GitHub subdomains, such as api.github.com:

PROXY_ENABLED = true
PROXY_URL = socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
PROXY_HOSTS = *.github.com

If you intend to proxy all connections to github.com, specify it’s second-level domain too:

PROXY_HOSTS = github.com,*.github.com

Note that you may need to set [migrations].ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS option to true in order to allow performing migrations via proxy.

Actions (`actions`)

ENABLED: true: Enable/Disable actions
DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL: https://code.forgejo.org: Default address to get action plugins, e.g. the default value means downloading from “https://code.forgejo.org/actions/checkout” for “uses: actions/checkout@v3”
ARTIFACT_RETENTION_DAYS: 90: Default number of days to keep artifacts. Artifacts could have their own retention periods by setting the retention-days option in actions/upload-artifact step.
ZOMBIE_TASK_TIMEOUT: 10m: Timeout to stop the task which have running status, but haven’t been updated for a long time.
ENDLESS_TASK_TIMEOUT: 3h: Timeout to stop the tasks which have running status and continuous updates, but don’t end for a long time.
ABANDONED_JOB_TIMEOUT: 24h: Timeout to cancel the jobs which have waiting status, but haven’t been picked by a runner for a long time.
SKIP_WORKFLOW_STRINGS: [skip ci],[ci skip],[no ci],[skip actions],[actions skip]: Strings committers can place inside a commit message or pull request title to skip executing the corresponding actions workflow

Other (`other`)

SHOW_FOOTER_VERSION: true: Show Forgejo and Go version information in the footer.
SHOW_FOOTER_TEMPLATE_LOAD_TIME: true: Show time of template execution in the footer.
SHOW_FOOTER_POWERED_BY: true: Show the “powered by” text in the footer.
ENABLE_SITEMAP: true: Generate sitemap.
ENABLE_FEED: true: Enable/Disable RSS/Atom feed.

Configuration Cheat Sheet

Default Configuration (non-app.ini configuration)

Overall (DEFAULT)

Repository (repository)

Repository - Editor (repository.editor)

Repository - Pull Request (repository.pull-request)

Repository - Issue (repository.issue)

Repository - Upload (repository.upload)

Repository - Release (repository.release)

Repository - Signing (repository.signing)

Repository - Local (repository.local)

Repository - MIME type mapping (repository.mimetype_mapping)

Badges (badges)

CORS (cors)

UI (ui)

UI - Admin (ui.admin)

UI - User (ui.user)

UI - Metadata (ui.meta)

UI - Notification (ui.notification)

UI - SVG Images (ui.svg)

UI - CSV Files (ui.csv)

Markdown (markdown)

Server (server)

Database (database)

Indexer (indexer)

Queue (queue and queue.*)

Admin (admin)

Security (security)

Camo (camo)

OpenID (openid)

OAuth2 Client (oauth2_client)

Service (service)

Service - Explore (service.explore)

SSH Minimum Key Sizes (ssh.minimum_key_sizes)

Webhook (webhook)

Mailer (mailer)

Incoming Email (email.incoming)

Cache (cache)

Cache - LastCommitCache settings (cache.last_commit)

Session (session)

Picture (picture)

Project (project)

Issue and pull request attachments (attachment)

Log (log)

Access Log (log)

Log subsections (log.<writer-mode-name>)

Console log mode (log.console, or MODE=console)

File log mode (log.file, or MODE=file)

Conn log mode (log.conn, or MODE=conn)

Cron (cron)