Announcing GeGoBi, a Gemini-Gopher-bihoster
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I've written a Gemini server with the silly name "GeGoBi", whose
purpose is to make it very simple for people who already have an
existing Gopher server to transition to Gemini-Gopher bi-hosting, i.e.
serving exactly the same content via Gopher and Gemini simultaneously
so that people can access it over the protocol of their choosing. You
can find it at
https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/gegobi.
The idea is that you just point it at your pre-exsting gopher
directory (it'll use /var/gopher by default) and it does the rest. It
will translate gophernicus-style gophermaps (which I think are pretty
generic, but I've only tested it wiht gophernicus) into Geminimaps,
and will generate directory listings for any directories without a
gophermap file. I plan to also add support for geomyidae's .gph
files, too.
GeGoBi is now what's serving gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space,
serving the content from
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/gemini, replacing
the ball of paperclips and bandaids that I hastily threw together
several months ago. This will be a nice test, but I'm also keen to
hear back from other people who test this out on their own
gopherholes.
Speaking of what's running gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space, I
should probably stop treating the Zaibatsu as my own personal platform
for experimenting with Gemini. It would seem sensible to use GeGoBi
to host *all* the Zaibatsu's gopher content on Gemini, but I'll have
to see how the sundogs feel about that (and also add support for tilde
syntax). I might need to look into getting a separate VPS to act as
an official home for the Gemini project, and to set up some more
experimental stuff.
