Working on a gemini server

idf31 at memeware.net idf31 at memeware.net
Sun Aug 16 23:26:13 BST 2020


Hello. I've recently discovered Gemini, and I am really interested in 
it! I have surfed the Gopherspace for some time, and I find Gemini very 
neat as a modern Small Internet Protocol. I have decided to make a 
server for the gemini protocol, more like an exercise. I want it to have 
a small codebase and be light on resources(my apologies if this sounds 
repetitive). I plan to use it in the future to host a bigger scale 
project in the gemini-space, so the end-goal is still an usable and 
secure server that could be used in real life. Any suggestion or help is 
appreciated, as this is my first attempt at making a server.

The source code is located here: https://github.com/IDF31/geminim

To build it you would need the Nim programming language. You can install 
it here: https://nim-lang.org/install.html.
Then to compile it you run "nimble -d:ssl build" in the source 
directory. For now it expects a certificate "mycert.pem" and a private 
key "mykey.pem" in the same directory as the binary for the TLS 
connection, a configuration system will be added soon(tm).
The server is(for now) looking for a directory named "pub" in the same 
directory as the binary.
It uses the default gemini port(1965).


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