Gitbucket over I2P Tutorial

Caution WIP, this tutorial is unfinished but in a working state.

As many people already know, I operate the gitlab server at i2pgit.org and git.idk.i2p , however, I would not recommend Gitlab for a small operation like the one I donate to I2P. Self-Hosting gitlab is difficult, demanding, and time-consuming due to the need to update gitlab very frequently in order to keep up with security updates, and the tendency of gitlab updates to break the gitlab instance. We use gitlab for I2P right now because of it’s many advanced features, but there are several far simpler git hosts available to set up over I2P.

One git host which is especially easy to deply on the Java I2P distribution is the “Gitbucket” git host, which is written is Scala, a JVM compatible language, and which uses Servlet 3.0, making it compatible with the “Jetty” web server used in Java I2P to provide a default hidden service.

Servlet is a Java technology which is used to deploy webapps to a web server. Java I2P is compatible with Servlet 3.0. In order to deploy a webapp to Java I2P, one needs to:

Stop the HTTP Server Tunnel
Download the webapp and configure it’s dependencies.
Place the webapp into the $I2P/eepsite/webapps/ directory
Restart I2P

Let’s use Gitbucket as an example.

First , go to the I2P Hidden Services Manager and “Stop” the hidden service for the default HTTP Server as seen below:

Before:

It will take a few seconds for the hidden service to shut down. The indicator to the left of the stop button will turn red when the tunnel is fully stopped.

After:

Next , download the Gitbucket .war file somewhere. You can download it directly to the $I2P/eepsite/webapps/ directory if you want, but it may be better to download it somwhere else and copy it where you need to later.

Using the terminal:

release_tag=$(wget -O - https://api.github.com/repos/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases/latest | jq -r ".tag_name")
wget -O ~/Downloads/gitbucket.war https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases/download/$release_tag/gitbucket.war

Using a Web Browser: Visit https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases/latest in your browser and click the gitbucket.war download.

Then , copy the gitbucket.war file into the $I2P/eepsite/webapps/ directory.

Using the Terminal:

cp ~/Downloads/gitbucket.war ~/.i2p/eepsite/webapps/gitbucket.war

Using the File Navigator:
Start by showing the hidden config files in your home directory.
Copy the file from your downloads directory to the webapps directory.

Finally , re-start the I2P router and test the gitbucket

Using the terminal:

i2prouter graceful
while i2prouter status | grep STARTED; do sleep 10s; done
i2prouter start

Using a web browser: Click the highlighted(Red) button in the bottom of the sidebar:

Once I2P has restarted, visit gitbucket locally and change your password at: http://localhost:7658/gitbucket/admin/users/root/_edituser

Using a web browser visit This page

You are now the proud hoster of a new Gitbucket server on I2P.

Get the source code:

Source Repository: (https://github.com/eyedeekay/Gitbucket-over-I2P-Tutorial.git)

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