# Gitea - Git with a cup of tea > A painless self-hosted Git service. Gitea is a community managed fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go and published under the MIT license. ## Installation Note the mysql-root password from below, you will need it during installation. When launching Gitea for the first time, you will greeted with an installer. You'll need to change two things: * The database settings: * Username: `root` * Password: the previously mentioned password * Database: `gitea` * Database Host: `db:3306` * Change the domain name to the one you use to access Gitea * Change the public ssh port to the one you defined earlier if you want to enable ssh * Change the public URL to the one you defined previously, this is needed to access Gitea's web UI.