Setting up gopher server

[skx]

Is there any good how-to/article describing setting up a gopher server
(http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/Apache-GopherHandler-0.1/ ?) and
creating indexes?

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[Cameron Kaiser]

"skx" <skx...@gmail.com> writes:

>Is there any good how-to/article describing setting up a gopher server
>(http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/Apache-GopherHandler-0.1/ ?) and
>creating indexes?

Unfortunately, this will greatly depend on the Gopher server you use. The
one you're indicating above seems to be based on Timm's Gopher-Server
package, and that one does not appear to have any special way of specifying
an index or Gopher menu (it just serves the contents of directories).

Most servers will support one of two methods: the old UMN-style format, with
multiple lines per entry, but is fairly self-explanatory; or Bucktooth format
(disclosure: I am the author of Bucktooth), which uses RFC-1436-like lines
in its menu files (gophermaps).

Is there a particular server you are considering using?

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[skx]

Cameron Kaiser napisał(a):

> [...]

>
> Most servers will support one of two methods: the old UMN-style
> format, with multiple lines per entry, but is fairly
> self-explanatory; or Bucktooth format (disclosure: I am the author of
> Bucktooth), which uses RFC-1436-like lines in its menu files
> (gophermaps).
>
> Is there a particular server you are considering using?

Now it depends more on administrator of my server. For now we have only
agreed that gopher protocol will be supported (somehow). That is why I
posted here -- to be able to add some specifics to my gopher support
request.

I have never published anything through gopher and was curious how to
add comments on the index page. Like the first paragraph "This server
has a lot of information [...]" on gopher://gopher.quux.org/. Actually,
I hoped for some simple tutorial on how to set up a server and indexes
:) but I guess there is none. Gophermaps are pretty well described
though... and, as I can see, thay are supported by PyGopherd and your
Bucktooth.

UMN dotfiles and gophermaps were the keywords I needed, thanks!

I'll come back with less trivial problems.

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