Identity

Deployment: single binary (native) or Docker image (gitea/gitea, codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo)
Unit: gitea.service (native) — no systemd unit in Docker deployments
Config: /etc/gitea/app.ini (native) or /data/gitea/conf/app.ini (Docker volume)
Data dir: /var/lib/gitea (native) or /data (Docker volume)
Logs: journalctl -u gitea, or /var/lib/gitea/log/ / /data/gitea/log/
Git user: git (native install) — all SSH operations run as this user
Ports: 3000 (HTTP web UI), 22 or 2222 (SSH git operations)
Forgejo: community fork of Gitea with identical app.ini format and CLI — all commands below work on both. Replace gitea binary with forgejo where applicable.

Key Operations

Operation	Command
Service status	`systemctl status gitea`
Start / stop / restart	`systemctl start\|stop\|restart gitea`
Reload config (no restart)	`systemctl reload gitea` — note: most `[server]` changes require a full restart
Admin CLI help	`gitea admin --help` (or `forgejo admin --help`)