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author | Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> | 2020-11-06 18:12:57 +0100 |
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committer | Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> | 2020-11-06 18:12:57 +0100 |
commit | 92e66347ed2971e811170559eb8865e0db0a5d3e (patch) | |
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@@ -6,18 +6,18 @@ # SYNOPSIS **gmid** -\[**-hx**] +\[**-h**] \[**-c** *cert.pem*] \[**-d** *docs*] \[**-k** *key.pem*] -\[**-l** *access.log*] +\[**-l** *logfile*] +\[**-x** *cgi-bin*] # DESCRIPTION **gmid** -is a very simple and minimal gemini server. -It only supports serving static content, and strive to be as simple as -possible. +is a very simple and minimal gemini server that can serve static files +and execute CGI scripts. **gmid** will strip any sequence of @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ or trailing in the requests made by clients, so it's impossible to serve content outside the *docs* -directory by mistake, and will also refuse to follow symlink. +directory by mistake, and will also refuse to follow symlinks. Furthermore, on OpenBSD, pledge(2) @@ -35,15 +35,15 @@ and unveil(2) are used to ensure that **gmid** -dosen't do anything else than read files from the given directory and -accept network connections. +dosen't do anything else than read files from the given directory, +accept network connections and, optionally, execute CGI scripts. It should be noted that **gmid** is very simple in its implementation, and so it may not be appropriate -for serving site with lots of users. -After all, the code is single threaded and use a single process -(multiple requests are handled concurrently thanks to async I/O.) +for serving sites with lots of users. +After all, the code is single threaded and use a single process, +although it can handle multiple requests concurrently. If a user request path is a directory, **gmid** @@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ The options are as follows: > The root directory to serve. > **gmid** -> won't serve any file that is outside that directory. +> won't serve any file that is outside that directory, by default +> *docs*. **-h** @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ The options are as follows: > The key for the certificate, by default is > *key.pem*. -**-l** *access.log* +**-l** *logfile* > log to the given file instead of the standard error. @@ -88,6 +89,40 @@ The options are as follows: When CGI scripts are enabled for a directory, a request for an executable file will execute it and fed its output to the client. +The CGI scripts will inherit the environment from +**gmid** +with these additional variables set: + +`SERVER_SOFTWARE` + +> "gmid" + +`SERVER_PROTOCOL` + +> "gemini" + +`SERVER_PORT` + +> "1965" + +`PATH_INFO` + +> the request path + +`PATH_TRANSLATED` + +> the full path: the concatenation of the document root and the request +> path + +`QUERY_STRING` + +> the query string if present in the request URL, otherwise it +> won't be set. + +`REMOTE_ADDR` + +> the IP address of the client in dot notation + # EXAMPLES To quickly getting started @@ -102,21 +137,21 @@ To quickly getting started EOF $ gmid -c cert.pem -k key.pem -d docs -now you can visit gemini://localhost/ with your preferred gemini +Now you can visit gemini://localhost/ with your preferred gemini client. To add some CGI scripts, assuming a setup similar to the previous -example, one can +example, you can $ mkdir docs/cgi-bin $ cat <<EOF > docs/cgi-bin/hello-world #!/bin/sh - printf "20 text/plain0 + printf "20 text/plain\r\n" echo "hello world!" EOF - $ gmid -d docs -x cgi-bin + $ gmid -x cgi-bin -note that the argument to the +Note that the argument to the **-x** option is *cgi-bin* |