Amethyst

Amethyst is an experimental Gemini server focused on providing a clean interface for building dynamic sites (although it can also handle static sites just fine). It is currently serving this capsule!

Features

• It's Python
• (Optional) automatic TLS certificate management: expired certificates can be rotated automatically without restarting the server, and new certificates are generated on first launch
• CGI support
• Directory listing support
• Nix package and NixOS support
• Extension interface for new content backends
• Works cleanly with systemd DynamicUser

Getting Amethyst

Amethyst is on GitHub:

Main server package

NixOS modules repository

The NixOS module for Amethyst is at "services/amethyst.nix" in the modules repository.

Whenever I get around to writing a repository browser, I'll make the files available for browsing here too!

Documentation

Quickstart

Quickstart (NixOS)

CGI

Extending Amethyst

Roadmap

I plan to add the following features to Amethyst soon:

• Client certificate support
• Middleware (for e.g. restricting access to paths to certain client certificates)