I know nothing about Gemini, but am aware some people are still playing with Gopher servers. I've never set one up myself. maybe I should
as an exercise some day. :)

I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as a gopher site. It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.

There are meant to be more gopher sites kicking around now than there were in its "hey day" By an order of magnitude I believe. But since that brief
flicker of interest I haven't looked sideways at it again.

Spec


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I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as
a gopher site. It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.

Gopher was a lot easier than I thought it would be and I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

More of an hour-or-two project rather than a whole weekend, if you ever get the urge or you get bored or something

With modern, up-to-date distributions, you will want to use this fork, which works with Python3.x if that is what is running on your system:

https://github.com/michael-lazar/pygopherd

From there it's a matter of ensuring you have a service file for it if you're using a systemd-based OS so it can start at boot. You can probably just grab one from someone if you ever decide to do it. Just ask.

Then, you need a gophermap file which is the index file pointing at resources.

I think I did it one night when I had insomnia, never having attempted it before.

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I know nothing about Gemini, but am aware some people are still playi with Gopher servers. I've never set one up myself. maybe I should
as an exercise some day. :)

I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as
a gopher site. It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.

There are meant to be more gopher sites kicking around now than there
were in its "hey day" By an order of magnitude I believe. But since
that brief flicker of interest I haven't looked sideways at it again.

Spec

There are a lot of gopher and gemini sites, or capsules, as they are known in the gemini world. The problem is there isn't much there that is good. Content matters more than form, and it doesn't really mean much if the format is light and easy on resources, when what is on there isn't really all that interesting.

Many sites are either copies of web sites, or blogs of people wanting to phlog or use gemini.

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Gopher was a lot easier than I thought it would be and I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Getting the server installed was the easy part. I didn't find a lot that was useful initially on trying to convert my existing data to be gohper friendly
so adding useful content to it was problematic. As I mentioned though, my overclocked chimp brain had just finished coping with PHP/mysql and the odd apache foible and was feeling a little burned out and just shoved it in the
too hard basket.

Spec


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There are a lot of gopher and gemini sites, or capsules, as they are known in the gemini world. The problem is there isn't much there that is good.

Sounds suspiciously similar to WWW :P


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On 04-17-22 20:24, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-

There are meant to be more gopher sites kicking around now than there
were in its "hey day" By an order of magnitude I believe. But since
that brief flicker of interest I haven't looked sideways at it again.

Yeah, I haven't looked into setting up a Gopher. Maybe one day, though I've been heavily sidetracked by RoIP servers. :)


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