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Server software recommendations

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Thu May 14 09:50:41 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Ecmel Berk Canlıer once stated:
> Hello all!
> 
> I've been checking out the mailing list and reading about Gemini every
> now and then, and decided to try and host a Gemini server for my blog.
> 
> One question I had is: Which server software is the most mature one?

  What do you mean by "most mature"?  By age, it's GLV-1.12556 (disclaimer:I wrote it).  By feature set, it's a toss-up between GLV-1.12556:

		* support for any type of documents (from multiple directories)		* CGI (both Gemini and HTTP specific, RFC-3875 compliant)		* user directories		* client certificate support		* easy to extend with custom modules (if you know Lua)

and Gemserv:

		* support for any type of document		* CGI (Gemini only, not quite RFC-3875 compliant)		* user directories		* reverse proxy		* virtual hosts

Both have recent updates. By popularity, last time I checked, it wasJetForce (which also has had recent updates).  Of the three mentioned,JetForce is in Python, Gemserv in Rust, and GLV-1.12556 in Lua.  The lack ofvirtual hosting in GLV-1.12556 is because I lack experience in dealing withserver certificates with multple hosts, and because of that, I can't exactlytest that feature.

> On the software list [1], there is no description about the state and
> feature set of any of the listed server software.
> 
> [1]: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/software/ 
> 
> I only need to serve static files, as everything else happens on a
> static site generator before being uploaded.

  If that's the case, then most of the servers would probably work, it thencomes down to which language do you have available for compiling/running theserver.

  -spc