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Suggestions for a Gemini server

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Mon Dec 20 08:28:59 GMT 2021

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Jason Evans <jsevans at mailfence.com> writes:

Hi all,

I've been running molly-brown for some time and I really like its

flexibility when it comes to handling funky mime types. I've been hosting

a gemini mirror to textfiles.com for a while and lot of these files

have random

file extensions but they are actually all plain text files. With molly, I

can define mime types like this:

[MimeOverrides]

"atom.xml$" = "application/atom+xml"

"rss.xml$" = "application/rss+xml"

".$" = "text/plain"

".gmi$" = "text/gemini"

".tgz$" = "application/gzip"

".zip$" = "application/zip"

".tar.gz$" = "application/gzip"

That way anything that isn't defined is automatically assumed to be

"text/plain" which works great for me.

I tried using gmnisrv and it has some wonderful features like certificate

generation and the ability to create multiple capsules however, custom

mime types must be managed manually which means that I would probably need

to rename every file in the textfiles collection to .txt or .gmi which I

really don't want to do.

I'm looking for suggestions for a server that can give me all of these

functions together in one place. Thanks!

shameless self-promotion :)

I've never used molly brown nor gmnisrv, but my server gmid[0] haslocation blocks and settings customizable per-location block. Thatmeans that you can either

server "example.com" { cert "..." key "..." root "..."

# set the default mime to text/plain default type "text/plain" }

or even

server "example.com" { cert "..." key "..." root "..."

location "/text-files/*" { default type "text/plain" } }

to change the `default type' only for files that matches "/text-file/*".It's also possible to define custom mime-types per extensions using the`map mime-type to-ext extension', see the manpage for usage andexamples.

Regarding the automatic renewal of certificates, there's nothing in thecurrent last version (v1.7.5) but in -master there's an helper script incontrib/ to automatically renew the certificates (it's meant to be ranfrom a crontab or similar) and I'd like to tag the 1.8 with the newyear.

[0]: gemini://gmid.omarpolo.com or https://gmid.omarpolo.com