Enabling Gitea Indexer fails due to read-only file system

[ChristopherMag]

Gitea supports indexer's so that you can search across the content of the code stored in Gitea.

The default configuration in the docs is to add the following to the app.ini file:

[indexer]
; ...
REPO_INDEXER_ENABLED = true
REPO_INDEXER_PATH = indexers/repos.bleve
UPDATE_BUFFER_LEN = 20
MAX_FILE_SIZE = 1048576
REPO_INDEXER_INCLUDE =
REPO_INDEXER_EXCLUDE = resources/bin/**

After adding this to and restarting the app I get the following errors in the logs:

...er/issues/indexer.go:173:func2() [I] [644ad75f-12] PID 167: Initializing Issue Indexer: bleve
...exer/code/indexer.go:186:func3() [I] [644ad75f-14] PID: 167 Initializing Repository Indexer at: /home/git/gitea/indexers/repos.bleve
...xer/stats/indexer.go:38:populateRepoIndexer() [I] Populating the repo stats indexer with existing repositories
...ndexer/code/bleve.go:273:Close() [I] [644ad75f-14] PID: 167 Repository Indexer closed
...exer/code/indexer.go:200:func3() [F] [644ad75f-14] PID: 167 Unable to initialize the bleve Repository Indexer at path: /home/git/gitea/indexers/repos.bleve Error: mkdir /home/git/gitea/indexers: read-only file system
...exer/code/indexer.go:265:func4() [W] [644ad75f-14] Repository Indexer Initialization failed
341 INFO exited: gitea (exit status 1; not expected)

The main heart of the problem I believe is Unable to initialize the bleve Repository Indexer at path: /home/git/gitea/indexers/repos.bleve Error: mkdir /home/git/gitea/indexers: read-only file system.

In the start.sh file it has crudini --set "/run/gitea/app.ini" indexer ISSUE_INDEXER_PATH "/app/data/appdata/indexers/issues.bleve" which appears to configure the path for the indexer that indexs issues but maybe there is another setting that needs to be set correctly.

[ChristopherMag]

@ChristopherMag

The fix is to change REPO_INDEXER_PATH = indexers/repos.bleve to REPO_INDEXER_PATH = /app/data/appdata/indexers/repos.bleve.

Please go ahead and mark this as solved but I wanted to still post it in case it is useful for someone else.

Describing the problem led to the obvious solution :-).

[girish]

@ChristopherMag thanks!