Introducing my new server, and two questions

Miguel de Luis Espinosa enteka at fastmail.com
Sat Jan 16 23:32:39 GMT 2021

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021, at 6:53 PM, Alex // nytpu wrote:
> On 2021-01-16 06:18PM, Miguel de Luis Espinosa wrote:
> > This is Miguel de Luis, hailing from Canary Islands, Spain and this is
> > my little gemini capsule gemini://enteka.xyz which uses the
> > Glasgow-php server. Mostly because php was already installed in the
> > server and it worked nicely.
> Welcome to geminispace!  Unfortunately my Spanish isn't too good but
> maybe reading more Spanish gemini content will help me learn better!
> 

Well, you never know. My first "real" English book was a Fighting Fantasy
gamebook. A language is a game and you never really "learn" it, you play
it.

> > *  As for file extensions, I'm using .gemini but I see many people
> > prefering .gmi  Should I change to .gmi? Are there any rules I'm not
> > aware of?
> I don't think it matters.  .gemini seems to be falling out of
> popularity, but everything I've come across understands it so it's fine
> I'd say.  Looking at your server, your most recent post with a .gmi
> extension (gemini://enteka.xyz/sonriePalea.gmi) is sent with a mime type
> of text/plain, so I actually think your server doesn't recognize the
> .gmi extension.

Yep, I think you are right. Renamed it to .gemini and it's now displaying
properly.
 
> 
> > * Is there a Gemini-aware feed format?
> There is!  It's a ?companion specification,? see this page:
> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/companion/subscription.gmi
> 
> Looking at your site, your homepage is already compatible with gemini
> feeds, so you're all set on that front.
> 

Thank you, Alex, I'm sticking to the Gemini comanion specification then. 
It might be less popular, but I do feel it makes more sense for Gemini.



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