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Gemini and CGI hosting

Luke Emmet luke.emmet at gmail.com

Sat May 23 17:46:19 BST 2020

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Thanks (and to others who responded). I would be interested in something like this if and when it proves feasible for user based scripting.

At the moment I'm just looking at the old fashioned plain CGI - due to its simplicity from the script author's point of view - even though as we know it is harder to secure and the performance is not great.

I've made some progress and managed to get Molly Brown installed on a local raspberrypi, so at least I have somewhere to experiment for now.

Thanks

- Luke

On 23-May-2020 14:33, tiwesdaeg at tilde.pink wrote:

Luke,

I'm looking in to this on tilde.pink. So far, the only way I could get

a cgi script located in a user directory to work was to create a

symbolic link directly to /var/gemini/cgi-bin/. So far, no one has

implemented a server that acts like gophernicus or geomyidae, allowing

for scripts to be run from any served directory.

I don't know how this is handled by webservers that support ~user

accounts.

-Tiwesdaeg

On Sat, 23 May 2020, Luke Emmet wrote:

Hi everyone

Can anyone suggest or recommend a server or host where I can make a

simple Gemini capsule serving static gmi files, but also CGI scripts?

I'm interested to see what kind of simple applications can be written

and delivered over Gemini space.

I'd rather not get into setting up my own server at this stage, if I

can avoid it.

Feel free to reply or send a personal message.

Many thanks

Luke