diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gi/gitea/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gi/gitea/package.nix
index 68cd69d380b0..540aea1870a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gi/gitea/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gi/gitea/package.nix
@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@ in buildGoModule rec {
     data-compressed = runCommand "gitea-data-compressed" {
       nativeBuildInputs = [ brotli xorg.lndir ];
     } ''
-      mkdir $out
-      lndir ${gitea.data}/ $out/
+      mkdir -p $out/{options,public,templates}
+      lndir ${frontend}/public $out/public
+      lndir ${gitea.data}/options $out/options
+      lndir ${gitea.data}/templates $out/templates
 
       # Create static gzip and brotli files
       find -L $out -type f -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*\.(css|html|js|svg|ttf|txt)' \