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# gmid
gmid is a full-featured Gemini server written with security in mind.
It can serve static files, has optional FastCGI and proxying support,
and a rich configuration syntax.
A few helper programs are shipped as part of gmid:
- `gg` is a simple command-line Gemini client.
- `gemexp` is a stripped-down config-less version of gmid to quickly
serve a directory from the command line.
- `titan` is a command-line titan client.
## Internationalisation (IRIs, UNICODE, punycode, all that stuff)
Even thought the current Gemini specification doesn't mention anything
in this regard, I do think these are important things and so I tried
to implement them in the most user-friendly way I could think of.
For starters, gmid has full support for IRI (RFC3987 —
Internationalized Resource Identifiers). IRIs are a superset of URIs,
so there aren't incompatibilities with URI-only clients.
There is full support also for punycode. In theory, the user doesn't
even need to know that punycode is a thing. The hostname in the
configuration file can (and must be) in the decoded form (e.g. `naïve`
and not `xn--nave-6pa`), gmid will do the rest.
The only missing piece is UNICODE normalisation of the IRI path: gmid
doesn't do that (yet).
## Configuration
[httpd]: https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8
gmid has a rich configuration file, heavily inspired by OpenBSD'
[httpd(8)][httpd], with every detail carefully documented in the
manpage. Here's a minimal example of a config file:
```conf
server "example.com" {
listen on * port 1965
cert "/path/to/cert.pem"
key "/path/to/key.pem"
root "/var/gemini/example.com"
}
```
and a slightly more complex one
```conf
cert_root = "/path/to/keys"
server "example.com" {
listen on * port 1965
alias "foobar.com"
cert $cert_root "/example.com.crt"
key $cert_root "/example.com.pem"
root "/var/gemini/example.com"
# lang for text/gemini files
lang "en"
# only for locations that matches /files/*
location "/files/*" {
# generate directory listings
auto index on
}
location "/repo/*" {
# change the index file name
index "README.gmi"
lang "it"
}
}
```
## Building
gmid depends on libevent2, LibreSSL or OpenSSL, and yacc or GNU bison.
The build is as simple as
$ ./configure
$ make
If the configure scripts fails to pick up something, please open an
issue or notify me via email.
To install execute:
# make install
Please keep in mind that the master branch, from time to time, may be
accidentally broken on some platforms. gmid is developed primarily on
OpenBSD/amd64 and commits on the master branch don't get always tested
in other OSes. Before tagging a release however, a comprehensive
testing on various platform is done to ensure that everything is
working as intended.
### Testing
Execute
$ make regress
to start the suite. Keep in mind that the regression tests needs to
create a few file inside the `regress` directory and bind the 10965
port.
## Contributing
Any form of contribution is welcome, not only patches or bug reports.
If you have a sample configuration for some specific use-case, a
script or anything that could be useful to others, consider adding it
to the `contrib` directory.
## Architecture/Security considerations
The internal architecture was revisited for the 2.0 release. For
earlier releases, please refer to previous revision of this file.
gmid has a privsep design, where the operations done by the daemon are
splitted into multiple processes:
- main: the main process is the only one that keeps the original
privileges. It opens the TLS certificates on the behalf of the
`server` and `crypto` processes, reloads the configuration upon
`SIGHUP` and re-opens the log files upon `SIGUSR1`.
- logger: handles the logging with syslog and/or local files.
- server: listens for connections and serves the request. It also
speaks FastCGI and do the proxying.
- crypto: holds the TLS private keys to avoid a compromised `server`
process to disclose them.
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